Engineers who served armies as fortification builders, surveyors and mapmakers, and whose civil work grew out of military service. Military engineering has long been a training ground for road, bridge and harbour building, and the people in this group applied their skills to mapping, fortification and public works in more than one country. Civil engineers who never served in a military corps are grouped elsewhere.
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Miguel Constansó (Wikipedia)
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After serving in the Spanish infantry in coastal Catalonia and Granada, he entered the corps of military engineers in 1762 with the rank of second lieutenant.
Tadeusz Kościuszko (Wikipedia)
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Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko (English: Andrew Thaddeus Bonaventure Kosciuszko; February 4 or 12, 1746, October 15, 1817) was a Polish military engineer, statesman, and military leader who became a national hero in Poland, the United States, Lithuania, and Belarus.
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