Stronghold: A History of Military ArchitectureBatsford, 1984 - 192 pages |
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Page 4
... walls to cover the steep and narrow pathway connecting the castle with the quay below . This area is known as the Outer Ward , the Middle Ward being that within the low mantlet wall . The dominant feature of Harlech is the massive curtain ...
... walls to cover the steep and narrow pathway connecting the castle with the quay below . This area is known as the Outer Ward , the Middle Ward being that within the low mantlet wall . The dominant feature of Harlech is the massive curtain ...
Page 14
... Wall . About 35 metres beyond the people in the background , behind the invisible - and now dry- moat , is the low mantlet wall marking the perimeter of Edward I's fortress . Set some 30 metres behind that is the Curtain wall ...
... Wall . About 35 metres beyond the people in the background , behind the invisible - and now dry- moat , is the low mantlet wall marking the perimeter of Edward I's fortress . Set some 30 metres behind that is the Curtain wall ...
Page 109
... curtain wall or from the corners to fire anti- personnel shot at assault parties hard up against the curtain wall or the base of neighbouring bastions . Unlike medieval towers the bastion was usually the same height as the curtain wall ...
... curtain wall or from the corners to fire anti- personnel shot at assault parties hard up against the curtain wall or the base of neighbouring bastions . Unlike medieval towers the bastion was usually the same height as the curtain wall ...
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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