1532 An unlikely war machine in the form of a clawed horse with spiked mouth. Woodcut from De Re Militari Libri Quator by Vegetalius, printed in 1532

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1532 An unlikely war machine in the form of a clawed horse with spiked mouth. Woodcut from De Re Militari Libri Quator by Vegetalius, printed in 1532 by Christian Wechel from sources reaching back to the Roman original of 390AD.

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Photo credit: © PAUL D STEWART/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: -, 1500s, 16th, ages, army, bizarre, century, colour, early, horse, machine, medieval, middle, military, pioneer, roman, seige, vegetalius, vegetus, war, woodcut