Vauban was Chief Engineer for Louis XIV. He changed the way war was conducted. It was a totally different approach with this mathematically minded person co-ordinating the troups. He set up the Royal Corps of Military Engineers
He was an expert in siege warfare and fortifications. He transformed fortresses, towns and harbours. His unique method was such a great success at the siege of Maastricht that Louis XIV gave him enough money to buy the Chateau de Bazoches in Burgundy.
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His bed is still there and unlike the vast majority, it still has the original fabric.
Vauban is buried at Bazoches. His place in history was such that one hundred years after his death, Napoleon ordered Vauban’s heart to be removed from the tomb (hearts were always interred separately) and placed at Les Invalides.
