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ed off bysoldiers. These we may suppose to be captives taken in thesuburbs of the beleaguered city, or in battles already won.^ The Assyrians not only understood how to defend their owncities, and to destroy those of their foes, they were fully alive tothe necessity for good carriage roads, if… … 11. -VA^ !.;l- Fig. 29.—Siege of a fort; from Layard. gates of Dour-Saryoukin,- and unless they stretched at least tothe frontiers, it is difficult to see how the Assyrians could havemade such great use as they did of war chariots. Not one of 1 It is even believed that the Assyrians used a machine…
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