The Company Fortress : Military Engineering and the Dutch East India Company in South Asia, 1638-1795

The Company Fortress : Military Engineering and the Dutch East India Company in South Asia, 1638-1795 / Erik Odegard.

The remains of Dutch East India Company forts are scattered throughout littoral Asia and Africa. But how important were the specific characteristics of European bastion-trace fortifications to Early Modern European expansion? The Company Fortress takes on this question by studying the system of fort...

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Main Author:	Odegard, Erik
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Leiden : Leiden University Press, [2020]
Series:	Colonial and global history through Dutch sources.
Subjects:	Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie > History. Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie Fortification > India > History. Fortification > Sri Lanka > History. Military engineering > India > History. Military engineering > Sri Lanka > History. Asian history. Military history. HISTORY / General Fortification Military engineering India Sri Lanka History
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