Stronghold: A History of Military ArchitectureBatsford, 1984 - 192 pages |
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Page 50
... artillery weapon ; the bottom level covered aries ( the battering- ram ) . This was an enormous swinging beam , up to 55 metres long , with an iron - shod head . Other tabulata in the siege - tower were equipped with swinging beams of ...
... artillery weapon ; the bottom level covered aries ( the battering- ram ) . This was an enormous swinging beam , up to 55 metres long , with an iron - shod head . Other tabulata in the siege - tower were equipped with swinging beams of ...
Page 147
... artillery and from infiltrating infan- try . Such was the rapidity of technological pro- gress that each innovation was eventually shown to be ineffective , either in war itself , or through carefully contrived practical experiments ...
... artillery and from infiltrating infan- try . Such was the rapidity of technological pro- gress that each innovation was eventually shown to be ineffective , either in war itself , or through carefully contrived practical experiments ...
Page 151
... artillery equivalent of the quick - draw gunfighter of the Wild West - and probably about as accurate ! Whether accurate or not , the disappearing mounting was only protected frontally ; it was still vulnerable to plunging fire from ...
... artillery equivalent of the quick - draw gunfighter of the Wild West - and probably about as accurate ! Whether accurate or not , the disappearing mounting was only protected frontally ; it was still vulnerable to plunging fire from ...
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