Stronghold: A History of Military ArchitectureBatsford, 1984 - 192 pages |
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Page 46
... effectively cut off all escape from Plataea and prevented the arrival of the oft- promised relief column from Athens ... effective , being too large in extent to defend against the new equipment and skilled engineers now being employed ...
... effectively cut off all escape from Plataea and prevented the arrival of the oft- promised relief column from Athens ... effective , being too large in extent to defend against the new equipment and skilled engineers now being employed ...
Page 88
... effective deterrent to tunnelling . Further strength was provided by giving the lower portion of the walls and tower a great sloping apron or plinth . Technically known as a batter or talus , it was not only too wide to be tunnelled ...
... effective deterrent to tunnelling . Further strength was provided by giving the lower portion of the walls and tower a great sloping apron or plinth . Technically known as a batter or talus , it was not only too wide to be tunnelled ...
Page 104
... effective against rafted engineers attacking the walls . Bodiam , therefore , could not have withstood a serious siege , but it was not intended to do so . It was not a royal or baronial stronghold , a base for operations , but a refuge ...
... effective against rafted engineers attacking the walls . Bodiam , therefore , could not have withstood a serious siege , but it was not intended to do so . It was not a royal or baronial stronghold , a base for operations , but a refuge ...
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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