By the evening, the Burgundians were masters of the breach; but seeing the interior rampart before them they did not venture to descend, but took up a position on the breach, protected bymantelets and fascines.
The bosson was destroyed with hatchets, and the mantelets left by the enemy were put in readiness for repairing the broken-down palisades.
The cat and the mantelets remained in the bailey as well as the trebuchets.
Then a bridge fell noisily on the head of the tower above-mentioned, shattered the manteletsand the catapult; and the assailants, uttering formidable shouts, leaped on the platform.
They succeeded, however, in setting up mantelets to protect them, and throwing sulphur and resin on these remains of the gate, set it on fire.
In time of war the battlements were masked by mantelets of wood, which could be raised at discretion by means of an axle turning in two iron collars let into the upper angles of the merlons.
He had timber and mantelets brought, and gave orders for the erection, on the very ruins of the angle, of a tower of green wood, which he took care to protect with woollen blankets and fresh hides.
A novelty in the form of summer mantelets has just been introduced in Paris, where it has met with pre-eminent favor.
Some of the most elegant mantelets are of white taffeta.
They bring forward mantelets and pavisses, [32] and the archers muster on the skirts of the wood like a dark cloud before a hailstorm.
Mantelets rolling, the hammer tapping all day, horses and carts in endless succession rattling up with materials.
Mantelets were prepared of boards fastened together, behind which the attacking parties could advance on the defenders, without exposing themselves to the arrows and javelins which would be hurled at them.
Behind the mantelets of the besiegers the defenders noticed fresh activity, as if a new attack against the city were being attempted, but in spite of it the Greek came down from the wall in his eagerness to see the girl.
As they drew near it the Africans abandoned the shelter of the mantelets and hurled themselves furiously against the barrier of enormous stones.
The mantelets rolled forward, veritable parapets of wood, through the interstices of which the bowmen shot.
The mantelets began to burn, and a crowd of women and boys, grasping torches, encircled the walking-towers, setting fire to their osier walls.
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