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
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- … Fig. 59.—Rolling Tower for scaling the Walls of Towns.—Miniature from the Histoire duMonde, Manuscript of the Fourteenth Century (Library of M. Amhroise Firmin-Didot). tected by mantlets stuck in the ground, drove away with their arrowsany of the defenders who attempted to show themselves above the…
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