The English CastleBatsford, 1942 - 120 pages |
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Page 60
... garrison fortress ( as opposed to a residential castle ) was that the passive strength of the building would enable a small garrison to take the place of a large army . We therefore need not suppose that the garrisons of twelfth ...
... garrison fortress ( as opposed to a residential castle ) was that the passive strength of the building would enable a small garrison to take the place of a large army . We therefore need not suppose that the garrisons of twelfth ...
Page 62
... garrison . ( If any trouble arose , I suppose the chaplain wrote a note to the Constable , who could get the chaplain of the castle where he was staying to read it for him . ) Before considering the methods adopted in assaulting the ...
... garrison . ( If any trouble arose , I suppose the chaplain wrote a note to the Constable , who could get the chaplain of the castle where he was staying to read it for him . ) Before considering the methods adopted in assaulting the ...
Page 111
... garrison were dreadfully harassed by the frequent arrival of " granadoes " which would come hurtling in through the ... garrison of the last were allowed to march out with drums beating and banners flying and all the honours of war . At ...
... garrison were dreadfully harassed by the frequent arrival of " granadoes " which would come hurtling in through the ... garrison of the last were allowed to march out with drums beating and banners flying and all the honours of war . At ...
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CASTLES OF EARTH | 5 |
GREAT STONE TOWERS | 23 |
LOFTY WALLS | 56 |
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arch architects architecture bailey barbican basement Bayeux Tapestry Beaumaris beautiful besiegers Bishop's Waltham built Caerphilly castellan castle halls CASTLE RISING castle-builders chapel Chilham circular clerestory constructed crenellated cross-wall defences ditch domestic buildings Dover early Norman earthwork Edward Edwardian elaborate enclosure engines England English castle entrance passage erected example feudal figs fireplace forebuilding fortress fourteenth century gallery garrison gate gatehouse hall and chamber hall-keep Henry HEREFORDSHIRE interior Kidwelly king later latrines lord main floor masonry MAXSTOKE mediaeval middle military moat MONMOUTHSHIRE motte motte-and-bailey motte-and-bailey castles Norman castle Orford outer palisades Portchester possibly protected ramparts remains Rochester roof round keep royal castles ruins Saxon scarps seems seen shell-keep Shropshire side siege stair staircase stone walls storey stronghold structures summit surrounded Sussex thirteenth century timber castle to-day tower Tower of London tower-keeps trebuchet twelfth century upper usually wall-towers WARWICKSHIRE Yorkshire