Название: Fort Manoel (ARX Occasional Papers 4/2014)
Год / месяц: 2014
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 108
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Язык: English

Fort Manoel, the last of the major bastioned works of fortification built in Malta by the Hospitaller knights of St John. This Baroque fort was designed by French military engineers in the early 1720s, to the conventions of the French school of military architecture inspired by the genius of Pagan, Vauban, and Cormontaigne.