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The topmost floor carried an artillery weapon ; the bottom level covered aries ( the battering- ram ) . This was an enormous swinging beam , up to 55 metres long , with an iron - shod head . Other tabulata in the siege - tower were ...
The topmost floor carried an artillery weapon ; the bottom level covered aries ( the battering- ram ) . This was an enormous swinging beam , up to 55 metres long , with an iron - shod head . Other tabulata in the siege - tower were ...
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This ensured that every angle of wall , ditch and approach was covered by defen- sive fire , mowing down the attackers as they struggled through a maze of outworks , and often just when they thought they were in safe shelter .
This ensured that every angle of wall , ditch and approach was covered by defen- sive fire , mowing down the attackers as they struggled through a maze of outworks , and often just when they thought they were in safe shelter .
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And at the end of this line , there'd be two squares of frame- work covered with canvas . And the distance be- tween those two frames would be equivalent to the vital section of a ship . Anything up to say , twenty yards .
And at the end of this line , there'd be two squares of frame- work covered with canvas . And the distance be- tween those two frames would be equivalent to the vital section of a ship . Anything up to say , twenty yards .
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| Title | Stronghold: A History of Military Architecture |
| Author | Martin Hubert Brice |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Schocken Books, 1985 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Dec 2007 |
| ISBN | 0805239383, 9780805239386 |
| Length | 192 pages |
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