Invincible Castles: Vauban's Unique Fortresses - Full Documentary

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  @CROM-on1bz · 1 year ago

  The proverb of the time was "Fortress besieged by Vauban, fortress taken. Fortress built by Vauban, fortress impregnable". Many people also forget his writings on agricultural yields, animal husbandry, how a farm should operate with maximum efficiency, the guy was a practically universal genius.

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• SP

  @Spartan129 · 1 year ago

  No matter what age or nationality you have to appreciate and applaud true genius

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• DC

  @dcross6360 · 1 year ago

  Nice to see a military leader more concerned with his soldiers than his accolades

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• VI

  @vitalic_drms · 1 year ago

  the amount of thinking he obviously did is incredibly daunting.  I would have run out of energy so fast

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• BE

  @benj59er · 1 year ago

  Damn, when you think about it, this guy was such a freaking genius

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• RE

  @RealHouseMouse2 · 1 year ago

  The city I hail from called Menen, 20 kilometres north of Lille was fortified in 1666 by Vauban. I was always taught that those fortifications where his real masterpiece

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• AT

  @atrumluminarium · 11 months ago

  For anyone wanting to see well maintained Vauban-style military architecture, consider visiting Malta. The Hospitaller knights were obsessed with building fortified cities and structures, and when the pope bankrolled them after they won the Great Siege against the Ottomans they just went nuts😂

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• KO

  @kolerick · 1 year ago

  &quot;The main weapon of war is the shovel.&quot;<br>Vauban, probably...

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• BR

  @BrotherHood-xh9sg · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrJ4SHf4tpE&amp;t=495">8:15</a> Pretty sure at this point, the Netherlands already used Defence Flooding in the entire Holland region. And I am sure others in the past had used it as well.

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• PA

  @palehorse6250 · 1 year ago

  Two minutes in, and I&apos;m so impressed with the quality of this documentary! Yay! The reconstructions look phenomenal, the aerial shots are stunning, the narrator isn&apos;t impossible to listen to (sounds human even!), and I am looking forward to spending every minute checking out this entire doc. Thanks, must have taken a lot of work!

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• MA

  @mattgardiner614 · 1 year ago

  One of the best documentaries I&apos;ve seen in a long while. YouTube subtitles continue to be atrocious though.

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• NO

  @Noman_is_my_name · 1 year ago

  I love how beautiful his designs are.

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