Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 109
of thebesieged place, such as the posterns, the barbicans, the barriers, &c. Asmost of these outworks were built of wood, attempts were generally madeto cut them to pieces with hatchets, or to set them on fire with arrows to K 66 WAR AND ARMIES. which were fastened pieces of burning tow steeped… … Fig. 58.—Caltrop, or Crows-foot (Fourteenth Century). With this end in view, the moat, which was generally literally strewnwith caltrops (Fig. 58), was filled up with fascines, on which ladders werereared against the ramparts, while archers on the brink of the ditch, pro-
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