The Company Fortress: Military Engineering and the Dutch East India Company in South Asia, 1638-1795

ISBN-13: 9789087283469 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 266 str.

Erik Odegard

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Table of Contents
Introduction
Fortification and urban design
The Military Revolution and its effects on European expansion: fact or fiction?
Method, sources, and structure
1. Artillery fortification at home and abroad
2. “A Company of commerce but also of State”: The VOC in South Asia
3. The Van Goens system: Building the fortifications, 1650-1675
4. Criticism and construction
5. Mughal decline and the Company: From victory at Chowgaht to disaster at Bedera, 1717-1759
6. After Bedara: Attempting to improve defenses, 1759-1780
7. A plague of engineers
8. The Military Committee: The Generality intervenes in the debates, 1787-1792
9. Fall of a fortress
Conclusion: The military evolution of the South Asian states
Appendix 1: Some remarks on terminology and illustrations
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Archival Sources
Printed primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Index