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Breisach

Germany

Also known as: Breisach am Rhein, Brisiacum, Mons Brisiacus

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fortification by Vauban

In Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban: Early career
…1662 and in fortifying Alt-Breisach, a French outpost on the right bank of the Rhine, from 1664 to 1666. In 1663 he was given a company in the king’s Picardy regiment. His services in the capture of Tournai, Douai, and Lille in the French invasion of the Spanish Netherlands…
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