ed off bysoldiers. These we may suppose to be captives taken in thesuburbs of the beleaguered city, or in battles already won.1 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… … Fig. 29.—Siege of a fort ; from Layard. gates of Dour-Saryoukin,2 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 for launching…
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