"Lines of Non Plus Ultra" Topic
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| 138SquadronRAF | 19 Feb 2018 6:37 p.m. PST |
Reading an account of Malborough's campaign in Flanders in 1711 I have come across references to the Lines of Non Plus Ultra. How were these lines constructed and what did they look like. Were they some form of continuous system or where they more like the Lines of Torres Vedres? With a set of interlaced fields of fire from forts. |
nnascati  | 19 Feb 2018 7:32 p.m. PST |
Here you go - "These Lines ran from the sea to the Ardennes, a total distance of some 160 miles, being a combination of defended riverbank, marsh, earthworks, formal town defences and individual forts. Garrisons held certain fixed points and could be supported by a mobile army which would shadow the movements of any attacking force." |
| Camcleod | 19 Feb 2018 7:41 p.m. PST |
Found this description on an online site: " You can find a more detailed description of the Ne Plus Ultra line in Chapter 18 of Marlborough: The Hero of Blenheim by John Hussey (2015). In brief, These Lines ran from the sea to the Ardennes, a total distance of some 160 miles, being a combination of defended riverbank, marsh, earthworks, formal town defences and individual forts. Garrisons held certain fixed points and could be supported by a mobile army which would shadow the movements of any attacking force. " link (missed by nine minutes :) |
| advocate | 21 Feb 2018 11:14 a.m. PST |
… but you gave your source. |
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