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 111
arts against them, or toundermine or inundate the ground on which they stood, so that their ownweight might cause them to topple over. Besides the means we have just described, there still remained the sapand the mine. Miners, equipped with pickaxes, were sent into the ditchunder the protection of… … Fig. 61.—Capture of a Town : The Garrison surrendering and throwing themselves on the mercyof the captors.-—Miniature from the Histoiredu Monde, Manuscript of the FourteenthCentury (Lihrary of M. Amhroise Firmin-Didot). passage of several soldiers at once, while the sappers put the finishing…
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