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The Lost Colony of Roanoke was an English settlement established in 1585 on Roanoke Island in present-day North Carolina, with a second group arriving in 1587 led by John White. When White returned from a supply trip to England in 1590, delayed by the Anglo-Spanish War, he found the settlement aband...
The Citadel of Amiens is a bastioned fortress in Amiens, in northern France. Henri IV ordered its construction after the Spanish capture of Amiens in 1597, and the engineer Jean Errard directed work carried out mainly from 1598 to 1610 and completed in 1622. The pentagonal stronghold has five bastio...
The Citadel of Turin is a 16th-century pentagonal fortress in Italy, built by Duke Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy and distinguished by its surviving facade and grounds.
