The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 147
... besiegers was seriously wounded by a bolt which penetrated the front of his armour and over 200 of their artillerymen became casualties as a result of the besieged's concentrated fire on the siege - engines . PROVISIONS see also Stores ...
... besiegers was seriously wounded by a bolt which penetrated the front of his armour and over 200 of their artillerymen became casualties as a result of the besieged's concentrated fire on the siege - engines . PROVISIONS see also Stores ...
Page 162
... besiegers it seems that it could expect no quarter if the castle was eventually taken . C12 Siege Warfare from Contemporary m.s. Further considerations included the facts that feudal levies only owed service for 40 days , that ...
... besiegers it seems that it could expect no quarter if the castle was eventually taken . C12 Siege Warfare from Contemporary m.s. Further considerations included the facts that feudal levies only owed service for 40 days , that ...
Page 186
... besiegers ' heralds asked the garrison to surrender honourably in the face of vastly superior forces . The besieged could ask for a truce - 40 days cessation of hostility during which they could communicate with their lord asking for ...
... besiegers ' heralds asked the garrison to surrender honourably in the face of vastly superior forces . The besieged could ask for a truce - 40 days cessation of hostility during which they could communicate with their lord asking for ...
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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