Stronghold: A History of Military ArchitectureBatsford, 1984 - 192 pages |
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... built for the families of 600 of the seamen serving in the Royal Danish Navy during the reign of King Christian IV ( 1588-1648 ) . His aim was to build up a powerful fleet and army to dominate the Baltic and its shores . Like many other ...
... built for the families of 600 of the seamen serving in the Royal Danish Navy during the reign of King Christian IV ( 1588-1648 ) . His aim was to build up a powerful fleet and army to dominate the Baltic and its shores . Like many other ...
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... built very broad at the bottom to support the weight of all the layers of bricks above . That meant that they could ... built a sloping rampart of earth as high as the wall and swarmed over that way . But Sargon was a barbarian from ...
... built very broad at the bottom to support the weight of all the layers of bricks above . That meant that they could ... built a sloping rampart of earth as high as the wall and swarmed over that way . But Sargon was a barbarian from ...
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... Built principally of Kentish rag ( a coarse sandstone ) , it was completed in 1137-42 . It is 21 metres square and 34 metres high , with the four corner turrets adding an extra 3.7 metres . The solid projections running the full height ...
... Built principally of Kentish rag ( a coarse sandstone ) , it was completed in 1137-42 . It is 21 metres square and 34 metres high , with the four corner turrets adding an extra 3.7 metres . The solid projections running the full height ...
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accommodation Antonine Wall armour artillery assault attack barracks base bastions battery battle became besieged blockhouses bombardment Britain British brochs building built Cadbury Castle camp cannon captured casemates century Chepstow Castle citadel Constantinople construction covered Crusader curtain wall Deal Castle defenders ditch earth Eastbourne Redoubt embrasures emperor Empire enemy entrance equipment erected field army fieldworks fire force fortifications fortress forts French frontier garrison gates German gunpowder guns Hadrian's Wall Harlech Castle Henry VIII hillforts infantry invader iron Iron Age keep kilometres King legion Maginot Line Martello Martello Towers massive medieval ment metres metres high metres thick metres wide military architecture missiles mortar motte-and-bailey mounted Norman operations palisade parapet perhaps pillboxes protection purpose-built raids rampart refuge Rochester Castle Roman roof round royal side siege slope soldiers solid stone stronghold strongpoints structures surrender surrounded target timber tion towers troops tunnels turrets Vauban warfare warriors weapons wooden