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fortification: Quick Facts

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Also Known As stronghold • fortress

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Shlisselburg
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German Strongpoint (WN 66 and WN 68) at Omaha. Normandy invasion, World War II, WWII, D-Day
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Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
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French military engineer
Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc.
Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
French architect
Coehoorn, engraving by Pieter Schenk I
Menno, baron van Coehoorn
Dutch engineer
Sanmicheli, Michele: Palazzo Grimani
Michele Sanmicheli
Italian architect
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Henri-Alexis Brialmont
Belgian engineer
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Fra Giovanni Giocondo
Italian architect
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Marc-René, marquis de Montalembert
French general

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