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Description: Some illustrations of the Siege of Candia. The detail pictures show the Sant' Andrea and Panigra Bastions of the fortress: No. 22, upper left: Turkish batteries and approaches (the grid-like lines are trenches) No. 23, upper right: Plan of defenders countermines No. 23, lower left: Underground combat, note the stock of gunpowder charges in the lower right corner which will blow up the mine No 21, lower right: Plan of the bastions
Title: Siege of Candia Scheither 1672
Credit: Scan from: Christopher Duffy: The Fortress in the Age of Vauban and Frederick the Great 1660-1789; Siege Warfare Vol. II; London, Boston, Melbourne and Henley: 1985 First published in Scheither: Novissima praxis militaris, Brunswick: 1672
Author: Johann Bernhard Scheither, military engineer from Brunswick and veteran of the siege of Candia, date of birth unknown, died after 1677
Permission: faithful reproduction of PD work
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License: Public domain
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