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CORMONTAINGNE, LOUIS DE (c. 16971752) , French military engineer, was born at Strassburg. He was present as a volunteer at the sieges of Freiburg and Landau in the later years of the War of the Spanish Succession, and in 1715 he entered the engineers. After being stationed for some years at Strassburg he became captain, and was put in charge (at first in a sub-ordinate capacity, and subsequently as chief
system
lieutenant
work
long kept secret by order of the authorities, but, an unauthorized edition having appeared at the Hague in 1741, he himself prepared another version called Premier memoire sur la fortification, which from 1741 onwards was followed by others. His ideas are closely modelled on those of Vauban (q.v.), and in his lifetime he was not considered the equal of such engineers as d'Asfeld and Filley. It was not until twenty years after his death that his system
Fourcroy de Rainecourt, then chief
chose
Fourcroy , and after him General La Fitte de Claire, actually gave to the general public the tEuvres posthumes de Cormontaingne (Paris, 1806-1809).His system of fortification was not marked by any great
See Von Brese-Winiari, Ober Entstehen etc. der neueren Befestigungsmethode (Berlin, 1844) ; Prevost du Vernois, De la fortification depuis Vauban (Paris, 1861) ; Cosseron de Villenoisy, Essai historique sur la fortification (Paris, 1869). End of Article: CORMONTAINGNE, LOUIS DE (c. 16971752) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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