Meantime Jerome was directing the making of trenchbuts and catapultsfor the besiegers.
By using his trenchbuts and catapults to best advantage, Sire Gauthier felt confident, however, that he had prevented them from leveling the moat sufficiently to make a firm foundation for siege engines.
At break of day the moat was filled, and the wooden tower began to move on its wheels towards a part of the curtain on which two catapults were already playing to breach the hoards, and clear the way.
All this time two catapults and two onagri showered long darts and stones on the vallum of the quay; while slingers and archers rendered it impossible for the defenders to show themselves.
At the same time, two catapults planted outside were showering burning darts upon the roofs of the towers m, n' and V, while a trebuchet was destroying the hoarding and battlements with volleys of stones.
Footnote 8: The catapults could discharge bolts six feet long and very heavy.
The square towers were not covered by roofs but by platforms, so as to allow catapults or onagri to be placed upon them.
There you would have seen catapults with huge rocks not only striking the external walls, but delivering the weight of harsh blows to the city's lofty palaces.
In addition to the many other instruments, like battering rams with which they might tear down the walls, orcatapults to topple the towers and walls, they ordered two wooden castles to be built, which we usually call "falas.
After the Turks fled, our catapults and slings fired the severed heads into the city to terrify the Gentiles.
They crept along the narrow streets which surrounded the ruined circus of Hadrian so cautiously that the besieged in the fortress were unable to use the catapults against them.
Memnon knew that unless the battering rams and catapults could be destroyed the city must fall.
Behind its centre the catapults and ballistae were posted, with their strings tightened and their great arms drawn back, ready to hurl their bolts or to discharge their missiles.
The catapults and ballistae were placed two hundred yards from the wall, so as to afford space for the flight of their projectiles.
Some carried ballistae and catapults and stores of darts and stones.
They showered stones and arrows upon the pursuing force, and the catapults sent huge darts buzzing down among the close-packed squadrons.
They were provided with catapults and ballistae, with which to answer and silence those of the Tyrians, and were manned by soldiers, who from their height were able to reach the decks of the triremes that were sent to annoy them.
The Twins had several grievances against their elders; but the loss of their catapults was the bitterest.
We'd have cleared him out of the orchard in half the time, if we'd had our catapults and bullets.
It was hard luck being made to promise never to use catapults again," said the Terror sadly.
What the Senator's shafts and catapultshad failed to achieve,--the Senator's wife would have accomplished!
Nothing was to be heard, save the dull, seemingly subterranean growls of thunder, and against this low threatening and sullen roar the pounding of Eckhardt's catapults against the walls.
Under cover of night the breaches had been repaired; huge balistae and catapults had been placed in position on the ramparts, and the fortress had been rendered almost impregnable to assault, as in the time of Vitiges, the Goth.
Bendocdar planted huge catapults and cross-bows upon the tower of the cathedral, and shot arrows, darts, and stones, from them upon the battlements of the citadel.
We saw the twinkle of night-fires all along the guard-towers, and the line of the black catapults growing smaller and smaller in the distance.
I shifted our best men to the ends of the Wall, and set up screened catapults by the beach.
If you wait till you see her men gather up the sail's foot, your catapults can jerk a net of loose stones (bolts only cut through the cloth) into the bag of it.
He left us our catapults at last, but he took a Caesar's half of our men without pity.
The catapults of the Wall - huge things forty feet high to the head - firing nets of raw stone or forged bolts.
There remained one ship unhurt, beyond range of our catapults .
Hannibal immediately, by my directions, set his catapults to work, and a volley of stones and pots full of pitch and sulphur was discharged, right over the Cabiros, on to the approaching vessels.
But I must say I have my doubts as to whether catapults are meant for little girls.
But all the same, Dolly has never liked catapults since that unlucky day!
The Skrælings' catapults make one think of the civilised countries of Europe, where catapults (i.
The Emperor saw at once that Heinrich should have had several catapultsover the gate instead of one, for the interval after each discharge was quite long enough for great advances to be made between shots.
The walls are stout and will stand some battering; then the two great round towers of the castle are armed with catapults which, they say, will fling round stones even across the river itself.
I strongly urge you to remove the tents and fix catapults in their places.
Tell him that if he will not so arrange, he will merely put us to the trouble of moving back our tents, and placing catapults here instead.
If he refuses, then must our encampment be removed further from the castle, while we shall place some catapults here and return his favours to him, so I have little doubt he will consent to leave us unmolested.
As the Count strode away Rodolph joined him, and Heinrich explained half apologetically that he was about to test all the other catapults in the castle.
And the trench fighters actually rigged up catapults with which they hurled heavy bombs at the enemy lines.
All sorts of ingenious catapults were built, some modeled after the old Roman machines.
Before the advantage could be followed up the files had been closed again and the formation had advanced so far that the catapults became useless, it being impossible to depress them beyond a certain angle.
The catapultshad been brought into action, and their huge projectiles hurtled constantly through the air, but for the most part innocuously, the machines not being in the best of order and the artillerymen unpractised in their use.
After half a dozen catapults had been made, the girls practiced slinging stones for an hour and several of them developed considerable skill.
The catapults also were turned over to those of the girls who proved most capable of using them skillfully.
As Alexander's military experience grew, he also added a use ofcatapults in the field, big stone-throwing affairs, to break up the enemy infantry.
Before his time catapults had been used in sieges, but never in battles.
At the siege of Jerusalem Titus employed three hundred catapults of different sizes and forty balistae, of which the smallest threw missiles of 75 lb.
Yet I have put them in; for surely if we older folk had not enjoyed our catapults we should probably have been sadder folk, as well as wiser.
There are in this little book things that many of the wiser folk shake their heads over--catapults for instance.
The three great catapults did not stop in spite of all these works.
They were repulsed by a volley of stones; for the Suffet had taken their abandoned catapults on the bridge.
Spendius arranged three great catapults opposite the three principle angles; he placed a ram before every gate, a ballista before every tower, while carroballistas were to move about in the rear.
The weights which they put into the catapults were so extravagantly heavy that the beams broke, and the attack was delayed.
From the summit of their palisade they launched arrows, earth, dung, and pebbles which they gathered from the ground, while the six catapultsrolled incessantly throughout the length of the terrace.
But the springs would dry up of themselves; the provisions would be exhausted, and the catapults worn out; the Mercenaries, who were ten times as numerous, would triumph in the end.
Huge catapults were built, of new design and hurling power, some casting single rocks, and others to rake a battlement with a volley of smaller stones.
Again, on the west were set the heaviest engines of assault, while to Menon's lot fell the lighter towers and weaker catapults of clumsy and old design.
The Assyrians offered no assault upon the walls, for their engines of war must first be guided down the mountainside and their catapults and towers be set in place; yet the army lay not in idleness.
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