Bernard de Gomme

He served with conspicuous ability in the royalist army as engineer and quartermaster-general from June 1642 to May 1646,[4] leaving England after the 1646 defeats of the first English Civil War.On 15 June 1649, Gomme received a commission from Charles II, then at Breda, to be quartermaster-general of all forces to be raised in England and Wales.A collection of 63 drawings by De Gomme of fortified towns in the Low Countries (The Netherlands and Flanders) is now kept in the British Library in London.On 14 November of the same year the king directed him to give his assistance to commissioners for making the Cam navigable, and establishing a communication with the Thames.A reference to Gomme's design of building a fort-royal on the strand near Ringsend, in the neighbourhood of Dublin, occurs in the report of the elder Sir Jonas Moore, surveyor-general of ordnance, drawn up in 1675.
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