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 118
ts of Nineveh. On Easter day, says theanonymous author of the chronicle of the Albigeois, the bosson (thesouthern name of the battering-ram) was placed in position ; it is long, iron-headed, straight, and pointed, and it so hammered, and pierced, and smashed,that the wall was broken through (Fig.… … Fig. 65.—Battering-ram.—From a Miniature in Manuscript 17,339 in the National Library of Paris. in the centre from a kind of massive trestle. The end which battered thewall was either covered with an iron hood or pointed with brass. Thebeam was swung backward and forward by the besiegers, and by…
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