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Europeans possessed long-standing institutional knowledge about effective fortress design.
Unresolved speaker · Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? · 1 Oct 2026
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“the long institutional knowledge of what a perfect fortress should look like.”
“There was jagged edged star parameters”
“andrevetments and battlements which maximized firepower.”51:32Report a misattribution
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