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 136
swarming with the enemy, all was by no means lost, for the poopstill remained in the hands of its brave defenders, who died at their postrather than yield. Among the splendid feats of arms which have adornednaval history, many instances could be cited when a ships safety was securedby the desperate… … Fig. 83.— Seal of the Town of Sandwich, representing the Poop Guard(Thirteenth Century). of submarine warfare (Figs. 86 and 87), which, in the fifteenth century, gavebirth to a series of extraordinary inventions in nautical weapons. It is to the credit of these benighted ages, too often accused of…
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