. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. the former operation, thatof actual assault on a town, a very lively re-presentation is afforded in the foregoing en-graving from a sculpture at Thebes. In a regular siege, the besiegers advancedto the walls, and posted themselves under thecover of testudos, and shook and dislodged thestones of the parapet by a kind of battering- ram, directed and impelled by a body of menexinessly chosen for llie service. IJul whenthe i)lace held out against these attacks, andneither a coup de inain, the ladder, n
. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. the former operation, thatof actual assault on a town, a very lively re-presentation is afforded in the foregoing en-graving from a sculpture at Thebes. In a regular siege, the besiegers advancedto the walls, and posted themselves under thecover of testudos, and shook and dislodged thestones of the parapet by a kind of battering- ram, directed and impelled by a body of menexinessly chosen for llie service. IJul whenthe i)lace held out against these attacks, andneither a coup de inain, the ladder, nor the ramwere found to succeed, it appears probablethat the testudo was used to cover the opera-tions of the sappers, while they mined theplace. The testudo, as shown in the following en-gravings, and at the foot of the larger cut(No. 6), which precedes, was of frame-work,sometimes su])ported by poles having aforked summit, and covered, in all probal)ility,with hides. It was sufficiently large to con-tain several men, and so ])]aced that the lighttroops might mount on the outside, and thus.
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