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Tango01 | 15 Apr 2015 10:07 p.m. PST |
… Built by Britain in the American Colonies. "The Vault is Slate's history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. The Twitter feed @bldgblog recently shared some of these images of plans for 18th-century British forts in the Americas, from the online exhibition "The Geometry of War." The exhibition, curated by Brian L. Dunnigan, associate director and curator of maps at the University of Michigan's William L. Clements Library, contains maps from the library's collection. Dunnigan writes in his introduction to the exhibition: "The period from the 1680s to the French Revolution has been called the ‘classic century of military engineering,' a time when earlier forms of artillery fortifications were perfected and frequently tested in battle." At the end of the medieval period, the use of gunpowder for artillery rendered tall castle walls useless, and European military engineers began to dig ditches in front of lower, sturdier newly-built fort walls, piling the dirt in front of the ditch and providing double cover. The eye-pleasing geometry of these fort plans had a practical rationale: Engineers wanted to create overlapping planes of fire, so that defenders could cover every angle of approach from the walls of the forts…" Full article here link Amicalement Armand |
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