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Michael Richards (engineer)

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Vauban Under Siege: Engineering Efficiency and Martial Vigor in the War of the Spanish Succession
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He was commissioned in 1692 (although he may have seen earlier service in the
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Follow the Sapper: An Illustrated History of the Corps of Royal Engineers
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British military personnel of the War of the Spanish Succession
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in 1697. He played a role in rebuilding the town of
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Michael Richards (soldier)
military engineer
Chief Engineer of Great Britain
Surveyor-General of the Ordnance
Jacob Richards
Solomon Richards
County Wexford
Jacob
John Richards

Royal Brass Foundry
Williamite War in Ireland
Flanders
Nine Years War
Newfoundland
St. John's
Chief Engineer of Great Britain
Martin Beckman
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
Master-General of the Ordnance
Surveyor-General of the Ordnance
Charlton
Royal Arsenal
Woolwich
Royal Brass Foundry
Grade I listed
Sir John Vanbrugh
Nicholas Hawksmoor
Brigadier General
St Luke's Church

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