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 142
with what difficulty and how slowly the new style of weaponsreplaced the old one. In the ships inventories of 1441, side by side withbombardes, we find invariably figuring large cross-bows, viretons, darts, longlances, and complete sets of armour for the sailors. Things were not muchmore advanced… … Fig. 91.—Prows of Galleys armed with the Spur.—From Drawings by Breugel the Elder,engraved by Fr. Huys (1550). of wooden staves, bound round with stout iron bands and ropes. Some ofthese primitive guns exploded at their first discharge; one alone survives,and is now to be seen in the arsenal at…
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