Stronghold: A History of Military ArchitectureSchocken Books, 1985 - 192 pages |
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Page 47
... containing incendiary material ) shot through the air to crash onto the target about 200 metres away . The Phoenicians had invented artillery . During the reign of Alexander the Great and his Seleucid successors , the devices of siege ...
... containing incendiary material ) shot through the air to crash onto the target about 200 metres away . The Phoenicians had invented artillery . During the reign of Alexander the Great and his Seleucid successors , the devices of siege ...
Page 64
... containing rubble and earth . The secret of mortar manufacture seems to have been temporarily lost , so the fortification was faced with a dry - stone wall and crowned with a wooden battlement . The gateway was of wood , with inner and ...
... containing rubble and earth . The secret of mortar manufacture seems to have been temporarily lost , so the fortification was faced with a dry - stone wall and crowned with a wooden battlement . The gateway was of wood , with inner and ...
Page 97
... ( containing the Great Tower ) with 45 Massive and austere , Marten's Tower of Chepstow Castle symbolises Anglo - Norman dominion over the Welsh Marches . Note how the round tower , already an improvement on earlier square designs , has ...
... ( containing the Great Tower ) with 45 Massive and austere , Marten's Tower of Chepstow Castle symbolises Anglo - Norman dominion over the Welsh Marches . Note how the round tower , already an improvement on earlier square designs , has ...
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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