The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 11
... ASSAULT As direct assaults cost lives , a beleaguered castle was asked to surrender honourably . If it refused , efforts were made to surmount ( see Escalade ) or breach its defences . Ditches were filled , wooden defences were attacked ...
... ASSAULT As direct assaults cost lives , a beleaguered castle was asked to surrender honourably . If it refused , efforts were made to surmount ( see Escalade ) or breach its defences . Ditches were filled , wooden defences were attacked ...
Page 15
... assault . It was advanced on wheels or rollers when the engineers had prepared an approach for it . It usually had several storeys gained by scaling ladders fixed at its back and sometimes the front was furnished with a wide bridge ...
... assault . It was advanced on wheels or rollers when the engineers had prepared an approach for it . It usually had several storeys gained by scaling ladders fixed at its back and sometimes the front was furnished with a wide bridge ...
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... Assault on Gate Now the castle was taken through four assaults . In the first , the barbican was captured where four or five of the outer guard were killed . In the second , the outer bailey was taken where there were more casualties ...
... Assault on Gate Now the castle was taken through four assaults . In the first , the barbican was captured where four or five of the outer guard were killed . In the second , the outer bailey was taken where there were more casualties ...
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Aberdeenshire Alnwick assault Bamburgh barbican barmkin baronial basement battlements Beaumaris besiegers built C12 E O Caernarvon Caerphilly chamber chapel Chepstow church Conisbrough constable Conway crenellated crossbow defence ditch domestic buildings Dover Durham earthworks Edward enclosure engines England entrance examples fireplace flanking floor forebuilding fortified manor-house fragments ft high garrison gate gatehouse ground hall Harlech Henry Henry III Herefordshire inner bailey Invernesshire keep Kenilworth Kidwelly kitchen knights L-plan later London Tower loops lord machicolated manor masonry mediaeval moat motte motte-and-bailey mound mural murder-holes Newcastle Norman North Riding Northumberland original outer bailey palisade parapet pele pele-tower Pontefract Portchester portcullis postern prison protected rectangular remains of curtain ring-work Rochester roof royal castles ruins Scottish shell-keep siege sometimes square stair stone storeys Substantial remains survives timber tower tower-house town walls turrets usually vaulted wall-towers wall-walk Warkworth Warwick wooden Yorkshire