Stronghold: A History of Military ArchitectureBatsford, 1984 - 192 pages |
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Page 37
... gates to trade in more peaceful days . It soon came about that the definition of a city was that it was walled ... gates were composed of solid wooden boards strengthened with metal and secured with wooden beams and bronze ( later iron ) ...
... gates to trade in more peaceful days . It soon came about that the definition of a city was that it was walled ... gates were composed of solid wooden boards strengthened with metal and secured with wooden beams and bronze ( later iron ) ...
Page 52
... gates , scattering the dying embers of some hearth that had not been properly extinguished . As the flames spread and the smoke billowed , the Romans charged , the engineers bringing up the battering - rams and grapnels and protective ...
... gates , scattering the dying embers of some hearth that had not been properly extinguished . As the flames spread and the smoke billowed , the Romans charged , the engineers bringing up the battering - rams and grapnels and protective ...
Page 83
... gate towers square instead of round , completely blocking up six gates and narrowing the others , further obstructing them with a portcullis . In that form the Walls of Rome had withstood siege by Alaric the Visigoth in 408. Honorius ...
... gate towers square instead of round , completely blocking up six gates and narrowing the others , further obstructing them with a portcullis . In that form the Walls of Rome had withstood siege by Alaric the Visigoth in 408. Honorius ...
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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