Answer: This is not plagiarism
Explanation: Plagiarism is passing off another author's work as your own without attributing credit to the initial owner. It violates the copyright of the author and is frowned upon in academic circles.
However, this student did not plagiarize the original work as he rewrote the author's ideas in his own words and also attributed credit to the original author. So this is not a form of plagiarism.
He applied his skill in engineering to toughen up the defence
It was meant to strengthen Europe, and what's a better method than making one big alliance out of the continent?
Ahab has always been somewhat mad...
No because it's your property, however there would be A LOT of p*ssed off people because of it. You'd probably be all over the news, 'cause you'd have to be really rich to buy it AND then people would harass you about it.