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Château Vaudreuil

Completed in 1726, it was built in the classical style of the French Hôtel Particulier by King Louis XV's chief engineer in New France, Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry.

Conrad Haas

Conrad Haas (1509–1576) was a military engineer of the Holy Roman Empire, who is often cited as the first person to describe a multistage rocket in writing, although some historians attribute that distinction to Jiao Yu in 14th Century China.

Denis Perera

General Deshamanya Joseph Everard Denis Perera, VSV, FCMI, ndc, psc, SLE (10 October 1930 - 11 August 2013) was a Sri Lankan general, military engineer and a diplomat who served as Commander of the Sri Lankan Army from 1977 to 1981.

Michel-Eustache-Gaspard-Alain Chartier de Lotbinière

Born in the Quebec City in 1748, he was the son of Michel Chartier de Lotbinière, 1st Marquis de Lotbinière, and his wife Louise-Madeleine (1726-1809), daughter of Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry (1682-1756), Engineer-in-Chief of New France.

Torstenssonsgatan

The street is named after Lennart Torstenson, Count of Ortala, Baron of Virestad (17 August 1603 – 7 April 1651), was a Swedish Field Marshal and military engineer.


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1523 in poetry

Girolamo Maggi (died 1572), Italian scholar, jurist, poet, military engineer, urban planner, philologist, archaeologist, mathematician, and naturalist

1572 in poetry

March 27 – Girolamo Maggi (born 1523), Italian scholar, jurist, poet, military engineer, urban planner, philologist, archaeologist, mathematician, and naturalist

1750 in Canada

James Glenie, army officer, military engineer, businessman, office holder, and politician (d.1817)

Babruysk fortress

In 1810, Tsar Alexander I sent out his military engineer Teodor Narbutt to find a site suitable for building a fortress somewhere on the Dnieper, between Mogilev and Rogachev in order to prepare for the looming threat in Western Europe.

Bazaine

Pierre-Dominique Bazaine (1786-1838), French mathematician and military engineer

Cristóbal Rojas

Cristóbal de Rojas (1555–1614), Spanish military engineer and architect

Delta wing

As the manuscript was discovered only in 1961 until recently the conception of such stabilizers and their name had been suggested in the 17th century by the Polish-Lithuanian military engineer Kazimierz Siemienowicz.

François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat

François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat (August 18, 1754 – October 3, 1833), French general and military engineer, was born at Saint-Sernin (Charente Inferieure), of a noble family, and entered the French engineers in 1774.

Frederick Clarke

Frederick J. Clarke (1915–2002), civil and military engineer with the United States Army Corps of Engineers

Henry Fielding

By her he had five children, of whom a lone daughter, Henrietta, would survive childhood only to die at the age of 23, having already been "in deep decline" when she married military engineer James Gabriel Montresor months before.

Henry Palmer

Henry Spencer Palmer (1838–1893),British army military engineer and surveyor

Jean Humbert

Jean Emile Humbert (1771—1839), Dutch military engineer who rediscovered ancient Carthage

Kallanai Dam

In 1804, captain Caldwell, a military engineer was appointed by the British to make a study on the Kaveri river and promote irrigation for the delta region.

Mario Masciulli

Mario Elbano Masciulli Manelli, Baron Miglianico (Livorno, Italy September 15, 1909 - Caracas, Venezuela October 16, 1991) was a prominent military engineer of the Italian Regia Marina, Major of Genio Navale and belonging to the recognized Decima Flottiglia MAS as director of the Office of Submarine Secret Weapons during Second World War.

Mayor Buratovich

The town is named after Croatian military engineer Santiago Buratovich (1846-1909) (born Jakov Buratović), who worked on the construction of the Suez Canal.

Military engineering

The NATO Military Engineering Center of Excellence (MilEng CoE) is co-located with the German Army Military Engineer School in Ingolstadt.

Osowiec Fortress

In 1889-1893, military engineer Nestor Buinitsky took an important part in the creation of the fortress.

Rae McGrath

In 1968 he joined the British Army, where he served for 18 years as a military engineer.

Sangallo

Giuliano da Sangallo (1445-1516), Italian sculptor, architect and military engineer

Supangmung

Chakradhwaj Singha also ordered his Prime Minister Atan Burhagohain, a skilled soldier, military engineer and diplomat to accompany Lachit Borphukan on the campaign to oust the Mughals from Assam.

Thomas Bedwell

In conjunction with Frederico Genebelli he was employed as a military engineer in strengthening the works at Tilbury and Gravesend at the time of the Spanish Armada.

Thomas Tingey Craven

Henry Smith Craven (1845–1889) was a United States inventor, civil and military engineer.

Villa Gobernador Gálvez

The city was founded by an Italian immigrant, engineer Enrico Mosconi, on 25 February 1888 (he was the father of military engineer General Enrique Mosconi, first director of the YPF state oil company).

William C. Harris

William Cornwallis Harris (1807–1848), English military engineer, artist and hunter

William Merrill

William Emery Merrill (1837–1891), American soldier and military engineer