Stronghold: A History of Military ArchitectureSchocken Books, 1985 - 192 pages |
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... Early Neolithic hunter - gatherers about 3600 BC . Its most distinctive feature is the multivallate Iron Age ... earliest prehistoric folk - memories , but there was a definite though shadowy Romano - British leader who continued the ...
... Early Neolithic hunter - gatherers about 3600 BC . Its most distinctive feature is the multivallate Iron Age ... earliest prehistoric folk - memories , but there was a definite though shadowy Romano - British leader who continued the ...
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... earliest references to sieges and for- tresses occur in the Bible , Homer's Iliad , and in similar records of the ... early strongholds of the Mediterranean and Middle East were usually fortified cities , not all cities were fortified ...
... earliest references to sieges and for- tresses occur in the Bible , Homer's Iliad , and in similar records of the ... early strongholds of the Mediterranean and Middle East were usually fortified cities , not all cities were fortified ...
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... early gunners did achieve some successes against fortress walls . The Scots besieged the castle of Estrevelin ( presumably Stirling ) with engines and cannon in 1342 , and in 1377 French cannon breached the walls of Ardres near Calais ...
... early gunners did achieve some successes against fortress walls . The Scots besieged the castle of Estrevelin ( presumably Stirling ) with engines and cannon in 1342 , and in 1377 French cannon breached the walls of Ardres near Calais ...
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