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Rimpler's engineering legacy is mixed, with many of his contemporaries criticizing his designs as being overly complicated or expensive. A theory that one of his designs, the "Rimpler Angle", influenced 18th-century fortress design was embraced by some historians but remains in dispute. However, his
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for 60 days, bombarding the city with cannon and digging mines under its walls; from his experience at the siege of Candia, Rimpler knew that the latter would be the greater threat to the
Viennese defenders, as they had very few means to counter mines. Rimpler commanded parts of the city's defenses
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Rimpler ordered the construction of firing points, entrenchments, and wooden palisades that could be built quickly. An expert on the Turkish
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