defending. The city could easily be supplied from the sea‚ but because of poor use of the Persian fleet‚ Alexander was able to move his siege engines and supplies to Halicarnassus for the battle. Alexander began his siege on the northern side of the city by filling-in a portion of the moat. He utilized ditch-filling tortoises to fill-in the moat‚ and enable his siege crafts to be positioned strategically in front of the city. Once this was complete‚ the Macedonians
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The catapult was a siege engine which was used to throw projectiles over walls. These projectiles included stones and in cases of a siege‚ rotting corpses of cows and humans. The catapult was good because it could be fired from a long range. It was bad because It was quite hard to transport. Siege A siege was the most common way of attacking a castle and it was when an army of men stood around a castle until the people inside the castle starved to death. Sometimes the siege would last for months
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were the most popular and were always advancing. Ranged weapons were deadly to front line opponents and could later on pierce armor. Siege weapons were the most essential in order to capture a castle or village and were constantly evolving. Medieval Weapons were deadly and dangerous‚ and were classified into three main groups: Combat weapons‚ Ranged weapons‚ and Siege weapons. In Medieval battles‚ hand to hand combat weapons were deadly‚ and were common throughout all ranks in an army. During the
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in 1942 where two forces invaded Egypt. Only one of the two forces was human. Erwin Rommel crossed the border towards Cairo. However‚ the British army tried had to stop him and four months later they counterattacked. Rommel defeated the British at Tobruk and raced into Egypt. At that time‚ the war between the Germans and the Soviet Union entered its second year where the Germans lost. Meanwhile‚ the other side of the country was invaded by “Anopheles Gambiae”‚ a mosquito that carried the malignant
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The End the American Revolution‚ the Siege of Yorktown WO1 Brian E. Wright 290A Warrant Officer Basic Course Primary Instructor: WO2 Steven P. Quast 6 January 2016 September 1781. The south had lost major strongholds in Savannah‚ Charleston and Camden. The battle was starting to turn in Georgia and South Carolina which forced the British north. The global superpower of Great Britain was involved in the American Revolution in full force as well as‚ First Anglo-Maratha War‚ Fourth Anglo-Dutch
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huge castles were mostly invented for defending the foreigner attacks. The castles were also the sin of the noble and royal power. Eventually‚ there were various kinds of castle‚ but most of the castles were used for protecting and defending during siege warfare. While the builders built these castles‚ they added much prevention structures to the castles‚ those preventions made the castles difficult to attack. Constructions of the castle to defense Castles defensed by deep moats and the surrounding
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The trebuchet is a large machine of the trebuchet family formerly used as a siege weapon and now for history reenactment‚ recreational or engineering purposes. It was formerly one of the most powerful weapons in history‚ being able to fire a projectile to a distance of up to three hundred yards accurately. It consists of a lever arm laid across a supporting crossbeam (the fulcrum)‚ a heavy counterweight on one end‚ and a sling on the other. The sling would hold the load (projectile) during battle
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Freda’s view of herself justified? ’From the mouths of babes comes the truth.’ From the time these words are spoken Freda is O’Grady’s favourite hostage‚ and through this she sees a chance to secure her own safety by staying on his good side. When the siege is over however Freda finds herself represented as a bad person by what Theo wrote on some napkins. Without anyone to tell her she’s not bad‚ she is dominated by Theo’s view of her as recorded on the napkins. The napkins‚ which implicate Freda in Theo’s
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warhorse‚ pole weapons‚ war hammer‚ the axe‚ bow and arrow‚ caltrops‚ Crossbow‚ flail jousting lance‚ pike‚ pole axe and the spear. They also had many other siege weapons and siege warfare and they were the medieval catapults‚ ballista battering ram‚ mangonel‚ Siege tower siege warfare‚ siege weapons‚ siege weapons design‚ under siege‚ and siege weapons design.The trebuchet is similar to the catapult and it is also different some ways that they are different is the trebuchet slings the stone of fireballs
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The Medieval Ages were known as one of the most violent periods of times in history. Because of this the architecture of castles changed drastically. Successfully defending a castle would depend on if the castle could defend a siege attack. Some defense features included moats‚ portcullis the barbican a gatehouse as well as crenellations and a drawbridge. (http://www.medievalwarfare.info/index.htm#towers) Castles were always built on land and were close to a body of water such as the ocean or a lake
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