The Danes had provided themselves with large numbers of mangonelsand catapults.
The besieged were not idle, but laboured at the construction of several mangonels capable of casting huge blocks of stone.
Take the same orders, Guy, to the men working the ballistas and mangonels on the wall.
The mangonelsand warrewolves were busy at their work, and the din of their projectiles was ever in the ears of the besieged.
The success of the Scots, described in a former page, had continued, despite the action of the mangonels and other engines which the massive walls appeared to hold in defiance.
Two towers of wood were raised against the walls, and filled with archers; seven mangonels cast ponderous stones from morning to night; sappers approached the walls under the cover of the cat.
And the barons for their part made ready their petraries and mangonels on land.
The besiegers enlarged the central platform, and were then able to mount the mangonels upon it, which succeeded in utterly destroying the trebuchet set up in the barbican, and the palisades in front, and in dismantling the battlements.
Polo assert that till this event the Mongols and Chinese were totally ignorant of mangonels and trebuchets.
And they had two men among their followers, a German and a Nestorian Christian, who were masters of that business, and these they directed to construct two or three mangonels capable of casting stones of 300 lbs.
The Emperor Napoleon observes that the direct or grazing fire of the great arblasts may be compared to that of guns in more modern war, whilst the mangonels represent mortar-fire.
I tell you that in all those parts they know nothing of mangonelsor trebuchets; and they were so far from being accustomed to employ them in their wars that they had never even seen them, nor knew what they were.
NOTE 1] The Kaan bade them with all his heart have such mangonels made as speedily as possible.
They built catapults to cast arrows, mangonels to fling rocks.
Haste five spare mangonels over to the west wall; nine to the northern.
The mangonels hurled their stones unceasingly, the arrows flew in clouds so that none could stand upon the walls.
Close by, a few yards from either side of the roadway, at the very edge of the wood, and masked only by a thin screen of bushes, men were hard at work constructing mangonels under Edgar's supervision.
Set all the men but those at the mangonels to work cutting great bundles of undergrowth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mangonels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
