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    Menno, Baron van Coehoorn ([ˈmɛnoː vɑŋ ˈkuɦoːr(ə)n]; March 1641 – 17 March 1704) was a Dutch soldier and engineer, regarded as one of the most significant...
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  • 1961), Dutch speed skater Menno ter Braak (1902–1940), Dutch writer Menno van Coehoorn (1641–1704), Dutch soldier and engineer Menno Heerkes (born 1993), Dutch...
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    lightweight mortar originally designed by Dutch military engineer Menno van Coehoorn. Van Coehoorn came to prominence during the 1688–97 Nine Years War, whose...
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    build the new fortifications. The late-seventeenth-century architects Menno van Coehoorn and especially Vauban, Louis XIV's military engineer, are considered...
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    Elector of Brandenburg who, aided by the celebrated Dutch engineer Menno van Coehoorn, besieged Kaiserswerth. Kaiserswerth fell on 26 June before the Elector...
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    targeting multiple targets. His Dutch rival Menno van Coehoorn employed a similar approach. While the 'Van Coehoorn method' sought to overwhelm defences with...
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  • mortar as a coehorn, and attributes its invention to a Dutch engineer, Menno Van Coehoorn, who lived from 1641 to 1704. Between 1672 and 1740, the Royal Foundry...
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    engineers, the French Marshal Vauban and the Dutch military engineer Menno van Coehoorn, developed modern fortification to its pinnacle, refining siege warfare...
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    drew their name. An early transportable mortar was invented by Baron Menno van Coehoorn in 1701. This mortar fired an exploding shell, which had a fuse that...
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    town's surrender on 5 June, but the citadel, staunchly defended by Menno van Coehoorn, managed to hold on until 30 June before capitulating, bringing an...
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