keep built into the hill so it made it harder for the attackers to get to. The castle would have ramparts which were mounds of earth that would slow the attackers down. So as the defences got better so did the attacks‚ attackers would build siege towers which were tall wooden towers with ladders inside them so that attackers
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Union General Grant was under siege at Chattanooga and Confederate General Bragg possessed the high ground surrounding the city and should have been able to control the movements of Union troops.10 Union troops numbered 56‚400 and the Confederates at 46‚200‚ but maintained a tactical advantage that strengthened their numbers.11 The siege by the Confederates was successful and starved the Unions artillery horses to death‚ which eliminated
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able to sit in the Siege Perilous. The Siege Perilous was a chair that whoever sat in it would be the finder of the Holy Grail. Even though he is Lancelot’s illegitimate son he was raised by nuns and so from a young age was taught to honor and fear God and to be pure. (Knights) He also proved his mettle by drawing a sword from a stone. The sword read that only the greatest knight could pull the sword out of the stone. Galahad’s arrival in the court of Arthur and his seating in Siege Perilous heralded
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Over the course of the fight for American independence‚ many battles were fought. Of the many battles fought‚ The Siege of Yorktown was a rather important one. Due to the major participants‚ applicable strategies used in this battle‚ the victory served to make a significant difference in the overall outcome of the American Revolution. There were three major participants at The Battle of Yorktown: Americans‚ British‚ and French. The American General was George Washington‚ the British General was
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One specific circumstance during the Second World War stands out: the siege of Leningrad. Starting on September 8th‚ 1941‚ one of the largest cities in Soviet Russia was under complete siege by the Nazi Wehrmacht‚ what occurred next was shocking. “The blockade was sudden and unexpected‚ as much as the war itself was unexpected for the country. There were no reserves of fuel‚ no
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British commander-in-chief‚ Buller‚ countered by splitting his forces and trying to raise all three sieges. This lead to three British defeats in the ‘Black week’ of December‚ at Stromberg‚ Magersfontein and Colenso. The battle of Colenso was one of three British defeats that made up Black Week (Boer War). It came during the first attempt to relieve the siege of Ladysmith‚ ensured that the siege would go on into 1900 and saw Sir Redvers Buller replaced as commander in chief in South Africa.
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Tennyson’s poem “The Charge of the Light Brigade” is very well known‚ but very few actually know what the Charge of the Light Brigade was‚ or when it happened. The charge took place during the Siege of Sevastopol in the Crimean War‚ and this military blunder as well as many other events during the siege‚ make this siege a huge influence on ending the war and bringing forth the Treaty of Paris 1856. The Crimean War is a war that most people have never even heard about. The war took place from October of
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forty-thousand men that he originally had. It is important to note‚ though‚ that this was the best case scenario for Hannibal. Had he decided to bring heavy siege equipment that he needed to capture Rome‚ it would have been an even more perilous journey‚ as the equipment was very heavy and cumbersome and would have surely cost him more lives. Actually‚ if the siege equipment had been somehow successfully brought over‚ it might have spelled victory for the Carthaginians.
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The Crimean War started because France and Russia wanted control over the Middle East and surrounding areas. The war lasted from 1856 to 1858‚ just under two years. The more important parts of the war are the causes and events that led up to it‚ the battle of the Alma‚ the naval wars of various seas and Sevastopol‚ the heavily fortified base of the Russian fleet.<br><br>MLV Ffrench Blake states that the main cause of the war was "Russia’s desire for territorial expansion‚ particularly towards a port
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LIFE HISTORY OF Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Lord Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell‚ (22 February 1857 – 8 January 1941)‚ also known as B-P or Lord Baden-Powell‚ was a lieutenant-general in the British Army‚ writer‚ and founder of the Scout Movement. Baden-Powell was born as Robert Stephenson Smyth Powell‚ or more familiarly as Stephe Powell‚ at 6 Stanhope Street (now 11 Stanhope Terrace)‚ Paddington in London‚ on 22 February 1857. His father Reverend Baden Powell was a Savilian
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