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 122
onstruction and rigging of ships underwentno change (Fig. 69) ; in the twelfth century the dromon was still theprincipal type of the class of ships propelled by oars. Next came the galley,smaller than the dromon, but fitted, like it, with two tiers of oars, andlastly, the gallon or galeide (termed… … Fig. 68.—Poop of an Ancient Galley.—From Pompeian Paintings collected in theBourbon Museum, Naples. to the historian Matthew Paris, on the 3rd of June, 1191, near the coast ofSyria, and which was carrying large reinforcements to the camp of theunbelievers, who were besieging at that time the town…
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