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 117
outs of the mine, and neutralise it by a countermine. At the siege ofRennes, in 1356, the governor of the town ordered basins of copper, eachcontaining several globes of the same metal, to be placed all about theramparts; when these globes were seen to vibrate and tremble at each strokeof the… … Fig. 63.—Machine intended to break the ranks Fig. 64.—Machine to shoot arrows, and to assistof the enemy and to crush his soldiers.— in approaching a besieged town.—EobertVegece, I/Art Militaire : 1532. Valturin, La Discipline Militaire: 1555. watchmen were often replaced by dogs, whose barks, in…
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