Image:074-The-Siege-of-a-Castle-q75-901x1230.jpg
From Wikipedia
![]() | Né v'chîn la page dé dêcrithie d'chu dôssyi tchi veint d'la C'meune à Ouitchimédia. |
Description |
The Siege of a Castle |
---|---|
Source |
Life and Work of the People of England: The Fourteenth Century by Dorothy Hartley (art teacher at the Polytechnic Institute, London) & Margaret M. Elliot, B.A. Lond. (St. Aloysius Secondary School, London.), Putnam’s, New York and London, 1929. [1] |
Date |
1929 |
Author |
George Kruger Gray, 1927 |
Permission |
out of copyright in Canada; may be subject to copyright elsewhere |
[edit] Description
“A hand-to-hand fight on a scaling ladder thrown against the battlements; the garrison hurl stones from a catapult. Note primitive cannon. Reconstructional drawing from various sources by George Kruger Gray.” “Attackers could head straight for gates or vulnerable points under movable covers, or erect scaffoldings (p. 74) to bring them above the level of the castle walls—another reason for clearing the castle district of available timber. But though castles could thus be taken by force or strategy, this century [14th] saw the inset of siege warfare which finally reached such extraordinary lengths.” (p. 79)
[edit] Licensing
![]() |
This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, Canada, the European Union and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years. عربية | Български | Català | Česky | Dansk | Deutsch | English | Ελληνικά | Esperanto | Español | فارسی | Français | Galego | עברית | हिन्दी | Bahasa Indonesia | Italiano | 日本語 | 한국어 | Nederlands | Norsk (nynorsk) | Bahasa Melayu | Polski | Português | Русский | Slovenščina | Shqip | Svenska | Türkçe | 简体中文 | 正體中文 +/- |
Lians
Ches pages ont un lian à chu portrait: