The company fortress: military engineering and the Dutch East India Company in South Asia, 1638-1795
"The remains of Dutch East India Company forts are scattered throughout littoral Asia and Africa. But how important were the specific characteristics of European bastion-trace fortifications to early modern European expansion? Was European fortification design as important for early modern expa...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "The remains of Dutch East India Company forts are scattered throughout littoral Asia and Africa. But how important were the specific characteristics of European bastion-trace fortifications to early modern European expansion? Was European fortification design as important for early modern expansion as has been argued? This book takes on these questions by studying the system of fortifications built and maintained by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in present-day India and Sri Lanka. It uncovers the stories of the forts and their designers, arguing that many of these engineers were in fact amateurs and their creations contained serious flaws. Subsequent engineers were hampered by their disagreement over fortification design: there proved not to be a single 'European school' of fortification design. The study questions the importance of fortification design for European expansion, shows the relationship between siege and naval warfare, and highlights changing perceptions by the VOC of the capabilities of new polities in India in the late eighteenth century"--Page 4 of cover |
| Beschreibung: | ix, 292 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9789087283469 |
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| 505 | 8 | |a Introduction -- Fortification and Urban Design -- The Military Revolution and its Effects on European Expansion: Fact or Fiction? -- Method, Sources, and Structure -- Chapter 1. Artillery Fortification at Home and Abroad -- The Italian Invention -- Adaptation in the Netherlands: The "Old Dutch System" -- French Developments in Defense and Siege Warfare -- Menno van Coehoorn and the New Dutch System -- The Trace Moderne of Cormontaigne-Ramecourt -- Beyond the Bastion -- Other Influences: Indo-Portuguese and Indian Military Engineering | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Conclusion -- Chapter 2. "A Company of Commerce, but also of State" The VOC in South Asia -- A Federal Company -- A Multitude of Monopolies : The Company and its Commercial Policies in Asia and Europe -- Soldiers, Sailors, Engineers: The Company's Armed Forces -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3. The Van Goens System: Building the Fortifications, 1650-1675 -- Controlling Territory and Commerce -- A Typology of the VOC's Forts in South Asia -- Rebuilding the Fortifications -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4. Criticism and Construction: Debating and Building the Forts, 1675-1700 -- Criticizing van Goens's Vision | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Designing the New Naarden in India: Van Reede At Negapatnam -- The Malabar Coast, 1670-1717 -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5. Mughal Decline and the Company: from Chowghat to Bedara 1717-1759 -- New Fortifications in Bengal and Coromandel -- Bengal, 1757-1759: A New Fort and Disaster at Biderra -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6. After Bedara: Attempting to Improve Defenses, 1759-1780 -- Engineers in India and on Ceylon -- Debating the Model Fortress: Negapatnam, 1760-1762 -- Ceylon from the War with Kandy to the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War -- Malabar 1760-1780: The Breakdown of Neutrality -- Conclusion | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Chapter 7. A Plague of Engineers: Ceylon 1780-1789 -- War: The Fourth Anglo-Dutch War in Asia, 1780-1784 -- The Beginning of the Post-War Debates -- Criticizing Reimer -- The Exact Science of Fortification: French Plans For Colombo, Galle, and Trincomalee -- Reimer's Rebuttal -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8. The Military Committee: The Generality Intervenes, 1787-1792 -- Colombo -- Cochin -- Galle -- Trincomalee and Oostenburg -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9. Fall of a Fortress -- The Fall of the System -- The British Verdict -- Conclusion -- The Military Evolution of the South Asian States | |
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| contents | Introduction -- Fortification and Urban Design -- The Military Revolution and its Effects on European Expansion: Fact or Fiction? -- Method, Sources, and Structure -- Chapter 1. Artillery Fortification at Home and Abroad -- The Italian Invention -- Adaptation in the Netherlands: The "Old Dutch System" -- French Developments in Defense and Siege Warfare -- Menno van Coehoorn and the New Dutch System -- The Trace Moderne of Cormontaigne-Ramecourt -- Beyond the Bastion -- Other Influences: Indo-Portuguese and Indian Military Engineering Conclusion -- Chapter 2. "A Company of Commerce, but also of State" The VOC in South Asia -- A Federal Company -- A Multitude of Monopolies : The Company and its Commercial Policies in Asia and Europe -- Soldiers, Sailors, Engineers: The Company's Armed Forces -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3. The Van Goens System: Building the Fortifications, 1650-1675 -- Controlling Territory and Commerce -- A Typology of the VOC's Forts in South Asia -- Rebuilding the Fortifications -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4. Criticism and Construction: Debating and Building the Forts, 1675-1700 -- Criticizing van Goens's Vision Designing the New Naarden in India: Van Reede At Negapatnam -- The Malabar Coast, 1670-1717 -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5. Mughal Decline and the Company: from Chowghat to Bedara 1717-1759 -- New Fortifications in Bengal and Coromandel -- Bengal, 1757-1759: A New Fort and Disaster at Biderra -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6. After Bedara: Attempting to Improve Defenses, 1759-1780 -- Engineers in India and on Ceylon -- Debating the Model Fortress: Negapatnam, 1760-1762 -- Ceylon from the War with Kandy to the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War -- Malabar 1760-1780: The Breakdown of Neutrality -- Conclusion Chapter 7. A Plague of Engineers: Ceylon 1780-1789 -- War: The Fourth Anglo-Dutch War in Asia, 1780-1784 -- The Beginning of the Post-War Debates -- Criticizing Reimer -- The Exact Science of Fortification: French Plans For Colombo, Galle, and Trincomalee -- Reimer's Rebuttal -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8. The Military Committee: The Generality Intervenes, 1787-1792 -- Colombo -- Cochin -- Galle -- Trincomalee and Oostenburg -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9. Fall of a Fortress -- The Fall of the System -- The British Verdict -- Conclusion -- The Military Evolution of the South Asian States |
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| spelling | Odegard, Erik Verfasser (DE-588)1268379158 aut The company fortress military engineering and the Dutch East India Company in South Asia, 1638-1795 Erik Odegard [Leiden] Leiden University Press [2020] ix, 292 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 24 cm txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Colonial and global history through Dutch sources Introduction -- Fortification and Urban Design -- The Military Revolution and its Effects on European Expansion: Fact or Fiction? -- Method, Sources, and Structure -- Chapter 1. Artillery Fortification at Home and Abroad -- The Italian Invention -- Adaptation in the Netherlands: The "Old Dutch System" -- French Developments in Defense and Siege Warfare -- Menno van Coehoorn and the New Dutch System -- The Trace Moderne of Cormontaigne-Ramecourt -- Beyond the Bastion -- Other Influences: Indo-Portuguese and Indian Military Engineering Conclusion -- Chapter 2. "A Company of Commerce, but also of State" The VOC in South Asia -- A Federal Company -- A Multitude of Monopolies : The Company and its Commercial Policies in Asia and Europe -- Soldiers, Sailors, Engineers: The Company's Armed Forces -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3. The Van Goens System: Building the Fortifications, 1650-1675 -- Controlling Territory and Commerce -- A Typology of the VOC's Forts in South Asia -- Rebuilding the Fortifications -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4. Criticism and Construction: Debating and Building the Forts, 1675-1700 -- Criticizing van Goens's Vision Designing the New Naarden in India: Van Reede At Negapatnam -- The Malabar Coast, 1670-1717 -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5. Mughal Decline and the Company: from Chowghat to Bedara 1717-1759 -- New Fortifications in Bengal and Coromandel -- Bengal, 1757-1759: A New Fort and Disaster at Biderra -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6. After Bedara: Attempting to Improve Defenses, 1759-1780 -- Engineers in India and on Ceylon -- Debating the Model Fortress: Negapatnam, 1760-1762 -- Ceylon from the War with Kandy to the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War -- Malabar 1760-1780: The Breakdown of Neutrality -- Conclusion Chapter 7. A Plague of Engineers: Ceylon 1780-1789 -- War: The Fourth Anglo-Dutch War in Asia, 1780-1784 -- The Beginning of the Post-War Debates -- Criticizing Reimer -- The Exact Science of Fortification: French Plans For Colombo, Galle, and Trincomalee -- Reimer's Rebuttal -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8. The Military Committee: The Generality Intervenes, 1787-1792 -- Colombo -- Cochin -- Galle -- Trincomalee and Oostenburg -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9. Fall of a Fortress -- The Fall of the System -- The British Verdict -- Conclusion -- The Military Evolution of the South Asian States "The remains of Dutch East India Company forts are scattered throughout littoral Asia and Africa. But how important were the specific characteristics of European bastion-trace fortifications to early modern European expansion? Was European fortification design as important for early modern expansion as has been argued? This book takes on these questions by studying the system of fortifications built and maintained by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in present-day India and Sri Lanka. It uncovers the stories of the forts and their designers, arguing that many of these engineers were in fact amateurs and their creations contained serious flaws. Subsequent engineers were hampered by their disagreement over fortification design: there proved not to be a single 'European school' of fortification design. The study questions the importance of fortification design for European expansion, shows the relationship between siege and naval warfare, and highlights changing perceptions by the VOC of the capabilities of new polities in India in the late eighteenth century"--Page 4 of cover Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (DE-588)672333-0 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte 1638-1795 gnd rswk-swf Befestigung (DE-588)4069225-5 gnd rswk-swf Südasien (DE-588)4058406-9 gnd rswk-swf Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie Fortification / India / History Fortification / Sri Lanka / History Military engineering / India / History Military engineering / Sri Lanka / History Military bases, Dutch / India / History Military bases, Dutch / Sri Lanka / History Pays-Bas / Commerce / Histoire / 17e siècle Pays-Bas / Commerce / Histoire / 18e siècle Pays-Bas / Commerce / Inde Pays-Bas / Commerce / Chine Commerce China India Netherlands 1600-1799 History Südasien (DE-588)4058406-9 g Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (DE-588)672333-0 b Befestigung (DE-588)4069225-5 s Geschichte 1638-1795 z DE-604 |
| spellingShingle | Odegard, Erik The company fortress military engineering and the Dutch East India Company in South Asia, 1638-1795 Introduction -- Fortification and Urban Design -- The Military Revolution and its Effects on European Expansion: Fact or Fiction? -- Method, Sources, and Structure -- Chapter 1. Artillery Fortification at Home and Abroad -- The Italian Invention -- Adaptation in the Netherlands: The "Old Dutch System" -- French Developments in Defense and Siege Warfare -- Menno van Coehoorn and the New Dutch System -- The Trace Moderne of Cormontaigne-Ramecourt -- Beyond the Bastion -- Other Influences: Indo-Portuguese and Indian Military Engineering Conclusion -- Chapter 2. "A Company of Commerce, but also of State" The VOC in South Asia -- A Federal Company -- A Multitude of Monopolies : The Company and its Commercial Policies in Asia and Europe -- Soldiers, Sailors, Engineers: The Company's Armed Forces -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3. The Van Goens System: Building the Fortifications, 1650-1675 -- Controlling Territory and Commerce -- A Typology of the VOC's Forts in South Asia -- Rebuilding the Fortifications -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4. Criticism and Construction: Debating and Building the Forts, 1675-1700 -- Criticizing van Goens's Vision Designing the New Naarden in India: Van Reede At Negapatnam -- The Malabar Coast, 1670-1717 -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5. Mughal Decline and the Company: from Chowghat to Bedara 1717-1759 -- New Fortifications in Bengal and Coromandel -- Bengal, 1757-1759: A New Fort and Disaster at Biderra -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6. After Bedara: Attempting to Improve Defenses, 1759-1780 -- Engineers in India and on Ceylon -- Debating the Model Fortress: Negapatnam, 1760-1762 -- Ceylon from the War with Kandy to the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War -- Malabar 1760-1780: The Breakdown of Neutrality -- Conclusion Chapter 7. A Plague of Engineers: Ceylon 1780-1789 -- War: The Fourth Anglo-Dutch War in Asia, 1780-1784 -- The Beginning of the Post-War Debates -- Criticizing Reimer -- The Exact Science of Fortification: French Plans For Colombo, Galle, and Trincomalee -- Reimer's Rebuttal -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8. The Military Committee: The Generality Intervenes, 1787-1792 -- Colombo -- Cochin -- Galle -- Trincomalee and Oostenburg -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9. Fall of a Fortress -- The Fall of the System -- The British Verdict -- Conclusion -- The Military Evolution of the South Asian States Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (DE-588)672333-0 gnd Befestigung (DE-588)4069225-5 gnd |
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