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Comment Xenotheka_39 I came across this post as I was searching for ‘fortification’, as well as the term ‘defense’. The book is called: ‘Neü-herfürgegebene Kriegsarchitektur’. Its main focus is very similar to mine, which is about warfare architecture: defense, attack and fortification. In the Xenotheka search the publisher of this post seems to have come…

First I wrote down some words, that I thought to stand in connection with the topic of my book: Fortification, attack, defense, warfare, attack, etc. Next I had planned to type them into Alice and get my results. Easy as that. But I had some trouble figuring Alice out. It took me a while but…

The book, whose full title Translates from French to: “the universal art of fortifications, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian and compounds.” Is followed by a subtitle sentence which reads: “With the Art of attacking fortified places by surprise and by force, and also to defend fortified places against surprises and force.” Those two sentences already contain…