Fortress Builder : Bernard de Gomme: Charles II's Military Engineer Book

	List of plates and figures	vi
	Acknowledgements	ix
	Abbreviations	x
	Introduction: The Background to Seventeenth-Century Fortress Building	1
	The European background	2
	Military organisation	5
	Predominance of siege warfare	9
	The role of the engineer	12
	Bernard de Gomme (1620-1685)	14
	The Anglo-Dutch relationship and the Civil Wars	18
1	The Old Dutch School of Fortification	24
2	The Civil War	50
3	Dunkirk and Tangier	82
4	Plymouth Citadel	106
5	Portsmouth	133
6	The Medway	169
7	Tilbury Fort	192
8	The Tower of London and Other Commissions	215
9	De Gomme and the Ordnance Office	237
10	De Gomme as Draughtsman	267
11	De Gomme as Military Engineer	296
	Conclusion: De Gomme, the Man in Context	328
Appendix	List of de Gomme's Plans and Drawings	338
	Notes	355
	Glossary	368
	Bibliography	371
	Index	377