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

Erik Odegard

doi:10.24415/9789400603806

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Edition: 1/2020
Copyright Year: 2020
ISBN-Print: 978-90-8728-346-9
ISBN-Online: 978-94-006-0380-6
Publisher: Leiden University Press, Leiden
Series: Colonial and Global History through Dutch Sou
Volume: 4
Language: English
Pages: 310
Product Type: Monograph

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Abbreviations No access
1. Fortification and Urban Design No access
2. The Military Revolution and its Effects on European Expansion: Fact or Fiction? No access
3. Method, Sources, and Structure No access
1. The Italian Invention No access
2. Adaptation in the Netherlands: The “Old Dutch System” No access
3. French Developments in Defense and Siege Warfare No access
4. Menno van Coehoorn and the New Dutch System No access
5. The Trace Moderne of Cormontaigne-Ramecourt No access
6. Beyond the Bastion No access
7. Other Influences: Indo-Portuguese and Indian Military Engineering No access
8. Conclusion No access
1. A Federal Company No access
2. A Multitude of Monopolies: The Company and its Commercial Policies in Asia and Europe No access
3. Soldiers, Sailors, Engineers: The Company’s Armed Forces No access
4. Conclusion No access
1. Controlling Territory and Commerce No access
2. A Typology of the VOC’s Forts in South Asia No access
3. Rebuilding the Fortifications No access
4. Conclusion No access
1. Criticizing van Goens’s Vision No access
2. Designing the New Naarden in India: Van Reede At Negapatnam No access
3. The Malabar Coast, 1670-1717 No access
4. Conclusion No access
1. New Fortifications in Bengal and Coromandel No access
2. Bengal, 1757-1759: A New Fort and Disaster at Biderra No access
3. Conclusion No access
1. Engineers in India and on Ceylon No access
2. Debating the Model Fortress: Negapatnam, 1760-1762 No access
3. Ceylon from the War with Kandy to the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War No access
4. Malabar 1760-1780: The Breakdown of Neutrality No access
5. Conclusion No access
1. War: The Fourth Anglo-Dutch War in Asia, 1780-1784 No access
2. The Beginning of the Post-War Debates No access
3. Criticizing Reimer No access
4. The Exact Science of Fortification: French Plans For Colombo, Galle, and Trincomalee No access
5. Reimer’s Rebuttal No access
6. Conclusion No access
1. Colombo No access
2. Cochin No access
3. Galle No access
4. Trincomalee and Oostenburg No access
5. Conclusion No access
1. The Fall of the System No access
2. The British Verdict No access
1. The Military Evolution of the South Asian States No access
Appendix 1. Some Remarks on Terminology and Illustrations No access Pages 261 - 262
Acknowledgements No access Pages 263 - 264
1. Archival Sources No access
2. Printed Primary Sources No access
3. Literature No access
Index No access Pages 285 - ix
Maps and Images No access Pages x - x
Tables No access Pages xi - 294