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By Liu Enming New York 03 December 2007 New York City's Manhattan can at times seem all business and flashy pleasure, a burgeoning island of skyscrapers and fast-paced modern life. But there are hidden treasures of history and tranquility awaiting qu...
In terms of the kind of dialogue that existed between attack and defense, it is very clear now to me that the appearance of trebuchet on the scene shifted that balance radically in favor of attack. It...
...one, fire in the hole! Oh, yeah. Renaud’s optimism is justified. The missile falls just a few yards short of the wall and a bit to the right. The team decides to give it one more day. But the nex...
With the manuscript as a starting point, Wayne used a combination of engineering theory and trial and error to come up with a working model. "All right, you'll look out...you get the camera, you'll se...
At the end of the 13th century, what was the effective range of an archer, and what was the effective range of a trebuchet. The historical reports differ. "Hew, how close you're gonna have to bring yo...
Trebuchets began in the Far East, in China. But what they were there, were hand-pulled machines, worked by quite large teams of men. "Prepare to loose, loose!" In many ways, quite limited in what they...
In the year 1304, Edward Longshanks, more formally known as King Edward I of England, mounted the greatest siege of his reign against the Scots and their castle at Stirling. The attack dragged on. Imp...
Knights in shining armor, charging each other in great pitched battles, that is the popular view of warfare in the Middle Ages. In reality, most medieval conflicts involved the attacking of castles, a...
