Medieval England, Volume 1Austin Lane Poole Clarendon Press, 1958 - 661 pages Volume 1 looks at the English countryside, domestic and military architecture, warefare, shipping, communications, towns & trade, coinage, clothing, arms & armor, and heraldry. |
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Page 143
... siege opera tions on a grand scale nearly all known means might be em ployed . When Henry III attacked the castle of Fawkes de Breauté at Bedford in 1224 , siege engines were used against the outer wall , wooden towers were built from ...
... siege opera tions on a grand scale nearly all known means might be em ployed . When Henry III attacked the castle of Fawkes de Breauté at Bedford in 1224 , siege engines were used against the outer wall , wooden towers were built from ...
Page 161
... siege of Berwick . This chronicler's evidence is confirmed by administrative records , for the Chamber accounts and the Issue Rolls show that in the years 1333-5 sulphur and saltpetre were purchased on the king's behalf . It looks as if ...
... siege of Berwick . This chronicler's evidence is confirmed by administrative records , for the Chamber accounts and the Issue Rolls show that in the years 1333-5 sulphur and saltpetre were purchased on the king's behalf . It looks as if ...
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... siege train , although a determined garrison could still make a siege a long and arduous operation . In the field English gunners made still slighter progress . More than a century after Crécy , at battles like Towton , Barnet , and ...
... siege train , although a determined garrison could still make a siege a long and arduous operation . In the field English gunners made still slighter progress . More than a century after Crécy , at battles like Towton , Barnet , and ...
Contents
in Economic History in the University of Oxford | 1 |
land and Fen 1417 4 The Moorlands 1819 5 The Monastic | 7 |
DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE AND TOWNPLAN | 37 |
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