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| Title | The story of Nuremberg |
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| Publisher | J. M. Dent & Co. |
| Date | 1899 |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Extent | 303 pages; 18 cm |
| Original Item Location | DD901.N93 H4 1899 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b1684865~S11 |
| Digital Collection | Exotic Impressions: Views of Foreign Lands |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic |
| Repository | Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/william-r-jenkins-architecture-art-library |
| Use and Reproduction | No Copyright - United States |
| Identifier | exotic_201304_001 |
| Title | Page 136 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_144.jpg |
| Transcript | The St Nuremi and properties belonging to the patrician families also several large buildings, including the Kathcrinc and Clara Convents, the Mary Hospital, and the Carthusian Monastery (now part of the I i Museum). Buildings of this kind, close to and outside of the gates of the old town, would, if they fell into the hands of an enemy, be a continual menace to the peace and safety of the burghers. Hardly, th fore, was the second line of fortifications completed when it became necessary to protect the new suburbs with wall and ditch like the old town. It may be noted that even when the new enceinte, that is the third or outer town wall, was finished, the second wall was still carefully presented as a second line of defence. This was directly contrary to the advice of Macchiavelli " not to establish within the circuit of a city fortifications which may serve as to troops who have been driven back from the first line of entrenchments . . . for there is no greater danger for a fortress than rear-fortifications whither troops can retire in case of a reverse; for once a soldier knows that he has a secure retreat after he h doned the first post, he does, in fact, abandon it and so causes the loss of the entire fortress." The Nur- embergers, however, never favoured any policy that could even remotely suggest that of burning their boats. For a long time thev kept their second line of defence. Thus in I 509 it came to the notice of the authorities that "the inner moat near the granaries were filled up with dirt and rubbish, which at some future time might do harm to the town, and the neighbours were forbidden to empty any more rubbish into the moat, and the town architect was ordered to see to it that what had been thrown into it was either levelled or taken out and that the pet was renewed." Similarly and in the same year 136 srrr |