Stronghold: A History of Military ArchitectureSchocken Books, 1985 - 192 pages |
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Page 13
... tower to replace the wooden building , while the whole area making up the enceinte ( or precinct ) of the stronghold was to be enclosed by a stone wall instead of the existing earth rampart . Both were completed about 1097. The central ...
... tower to replace the wooden building , while the whole area making up the enceinte ( or precinct ) of the stronghold was to be enclosed by a stone wall instead of the existing earth rampart . Both were completed about 1097. The central ...
Page 14
... Tower ( evidently associated with the storage of bows and arrows ) and the Brick Tower ( far left ) are but two of the thirteen towers providing flanking fire along the Curtain Wall . Rising above them are the Waterloo Barracks , built ...
... Tower ( evidently associated with the storage of bows and arrows ) and the Brick Tower ( far left ) are but two of the thirteen towers providing flanking fire along the Curtain Wall . Rising above them are the Waterloo Barracks , built ...
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... tower was invulnerable to infantry attack because the only entrance - naturally barred by a solid door was halfway up the smoothfaced tower , only accessible by a vertical ladder - also naturally removed by the defenders . It might be ...
... tower was invulnerable to infantry attack because the only entrance - naturally barred by a solid door was halfway up the smoothfaced tower , only accessible by a vertical ladder - also naturally removed by the defenders . It might be ...
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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