biography
| name: |
Coehoorn, Menno van
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pronunciation:
[van koohohrn]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1641–1704)
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| biography:
| Dutch fortification engineer, born in Britsum, N Netherlands. Second in reputation only to Vauban in his own lifetime, among his inventions was the Coehoorn mortar, used from 1674 up to the 20th-c. He was made a baron by the king of Spain for services in the Nine Year War (War of the League of Augsburg, 1688–97). The States-General appointed him Director-General of Fortifications in 1695, and Master-General of Artillery in 1697. He gave valuable service in the War of the Spanish Succession. |
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