François Sainte de Wollant
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François-Paul Sainte de Wollant
François-Paul Sainte de Wollant (20 September 1752, in Antwerp – 30 November 1818, in Saint Petersburg) was a Flemish engineer. He is best known for a number of fortifications in Imperial Russia which were built under his supervision.[1] In Tiraspol, Transnistria, a park is named after him.
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- 1752 births
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- Flemish military engineers
- Russian military engineers
- 19th-century Belgian engineers
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