The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 221
y, was called La Valette, aname which it still bears. Its founder was resolved tomake it one of the strongest places in Europe : a part ofhis project he lived to see realized, when death termi-nated his honourable career, in the year 1568. Pope Pius V. sensible of the courage and the piety ofthe… … Samed i} JSngravl ~by Georg London: pj-.Foiday .1808. VAUBAN. The Marechal cle Vauban, born in 1633, and wbo diedin 1707, was, perhaps, the greatest engineer that everexisted. Upon the new principles of fortification whichhe instituted, he repaired no less than three hundredplaces, and built…
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