2-321-821 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Menno van Coehoorn, Dutch soldier and military engineer, at the Siege of Namur, 1692, (c1870). In 1692, Namur, a fortress designed by Coehoorn, fell to the French under his great rival, the Marquis de Vauban. Coehoorn had his revenge three years later when he masterminded the recapture of the city, despite Vauban having modified its defences. A print from Nederlands Geschiedenis en Volksleven in Schetsen, by J van Lenner and J ter Gouw. (Leiden, AW Sijthoff, c1870).