Stronghold: A History of Military ArchitectureBatsford, 1984 - 192 pages |
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... warrior - adventurers with lower - class servants , rather than a mass- migration of peoples . The first to arrive were ... warriors . References to the bow in ancient warfare tend to speak of it in rather contemptuous tones : Paris the ...
... warrior - adventurers with lower - class servants , rather than a mass- migration of peoples . The first to arrive were ... warriors . References to the bow in ancient warfare tend to speak of it in rather contemptuous tones : Paris the ...
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... warriors , thus proving your superiority so that you gained monopolistic control of the canals and crops of the valley , and seized the material riches and wealth - producing population within the oppos- ing city . The destruction of ...
... warriors , thus proving your superiority so that you gained monopolistic control of the canals and crops of the valley , and seized the material riches and wealth - producing population within the oppos- ing city . The destruction of ...
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... warriors standing shoulder - to - shoulder - the population was simply not big enough . But it may still have had ... warrior- heroes ; it is a theme which runs all through subsequent British and English military history ( even ...
... warriors standing shoulder - to - shoulder - the population was simply not big enough . But it may still have had ... warrior- heroes ; it is a theme which runs all through subsequent British and English military history ( even ...
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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