Stronghold: A History of Military ArchitectureSchocken Books, 1985 - 192 pages |
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Page 97
... loop on that level is original as is the lancet window on the second floor . These two storeys were the personal living room and bed chamber of the lord of the castle . Arrow - loops are also provided in the merlons on the battlements ...
... loop on that level is original as is the lancet window on the second floor . These two storeys were the personal living room and bed chamber of the lord of the castle . Arrow - loops are also provided in the merlons on the battlements ...
Page 103
... loops were opened out into full - scale embrasures . Blocked with shutters when not in use , the inward part had to ... loops above longbow arrow - loops in the Byward Tower . There are two theories regarding the origin of the name of ...
... loops were opened out into full - scale embrasures . Blocked with shutters when not in use , the inward part had to ... loops above longbow arrow - loops in the Byward Tower . There are two theories regarding the origin of the name of ...
Page 131
... loops . The base walls were laid out with bastions and dead - ends affording good firing positions and killing grounds . - Nevertheless , Japanese warfare was tradition- ally settled in the field , samurai swords and barbed arrows ...
... loops . The base walls were laid out with bastions and dead - ends affording good firing positions and killing grounds . - Nevertheless , Japanese warfare was tradition- ally settled in the field , samurai swords and barbed arrows ...
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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