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| Fort Bourtange, Netherlands |
Gee, that looks familiar. It's another fort designed by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban. The earthworks are more extensive than shown in the above picture. Wikipedia has a page.
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| Fort Bourtange, Netherlands |
I suspect Fort Sedan was also one of Vauban's designs, but there isn't much left of the original earthworks.
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| Fort Sedan, France |
I didn't find much when I went looking for a plans or drawings for the original Sedan Castle, but I did find this short video someone took of a model in the castle itself.
Chateau Fort de Sedan 02
Cormack Roadtrip
Chateau Fort de Sedan 02
Cormack Roadtrip
I originally got started on Fort Sedan because of a movie about some women dealing with the impact of WW1 on their little village. There was a big battle at the Fort, which wasn't too far from their village.
Thereis one just like that at
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Quite a nice stay while waiting for the channel ferry.
I know the affliction, in 1966 I bought a set of encyclopedias because watching TV, especially quiz shows, would arouse curiosities.
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