Machines used in ancient sieges. Vinea 1, pluteus 2, moveable towers 3,4, and different modes of defending castle walls from a battering ram. Copperplate engraving by Goodnight from Francis Grose's Military Antiquities respecting a History of the English Army, Stockdale, London, 1812.

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