| 1874 - 252 pages
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| Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies - 1859 - 624 pages
...800 BC, when Uzziah made use of engines invented by cunning men for purposes of defence, placing them upon the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. Amongst other cities, this king took and brake down the wall of Ashdod, in the hind of the Philistines,... | |
| 1855 - 726 pages
...were alluded to in the following verse, these machines having been invented " by cunning men to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal." You may obtain a further insight into the application of arms in these far-distant periods by turning... | |
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