The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 11
... DEFENCE C12 and C13 warfare tended towards a pattern : resistance in field , retirement behind defence , diversionary attacks and assaults , counter - attack and sortie , search for peripheral weakness and its exploitation , retreat to ...
... DEFENCE C12 and C13 warfare tended towards a pattern : resistance in field , retirement behind defence , diversionary attacks and assaults , counter - attack and sortie , search for peripheral weakness and its exploitation , retreat to ...
Page 35
... defence with vigour and success in his absence ( see Women , Military Capacity of ) . In 1174 Odinek de Humfraville , Lord of Prudhoe , spurred his horse Baucan day and night to raise a force for the relief of his castle which was being ...
... defence with vigour and success in his absence ( see Women , Military Capacity of ) . In 1174 Odinek de Humfraville , Lord of Prudhoe , spurred his horse Baucan day and night to raise a force for the relief of his castle which was being ...
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... DEFENCE Early castles developed on the principle of successive lines of defence , defenders retreated as each was captured until they reached their ' last resort ' . Though such lines caused considerable trouble to the adversary , they ...
... DEFENCE Early castles developed on the principle of successive lines of defence , defenders retreated as each was captured until they reached their ' last resort ' . Though such lines caused considerable trouble to the adversary , they ...
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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