. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. oyed to throw into besieged strongholds the dead bodiesof horses and other animals, fire-balls, and cases of inflammable matter; butthey were generally used to shatter the roofs of the buildings inside thewalls, and to crush the protecting wooden sheds constructed on the ramparts. Their use was still continued long after the invention of gunpowder. Inthe wars of the fourteenth century, particularly in the sieges of Tarazonia,Barcelona, and Burgos, bricoles were made use of side by side with cannonsdischarged
. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. oyed to throw into besieged strongholds the dead bodiesof horses and other animals, fire-balls, and cases of inflammable matter; butthey were generally used to shatter the roofs of the buildings inside thewalls, and to crush the protecting wooden sheds constructed on the ramparts. Their use was still continued long after the invention of gunpowder. Inthe wars of the fourteenth century, particularly in the sieges of Tarazonia,Barcelona, and Burgos, bricoles were made use of side by side with cannonsdischarged with gunpowder. It was not until the close of the fifteenthcentury that the rapid progress of the new artillery, which enabled besiegersto breach a wall from a considerable distance, and with a smaller expenditureboth of time and men, caused the whole paraphernalia of the old-fashionedballistic machines to fall into disuse. Thenceforward a new era commencedin the science of attack and defence—an era of which the immense resultsdo not belong only to the period of the Fig. 67.—Ballista.—From a Miniature in Manuscript 17,339, in theNational Library of Paris. NAVAL MATTEES. Old Traditions: Long Vessels and Broad Dromon—The Galeasse-The Coque -Caracks and Galleons-Francis Lb Great Carack-Caravelles-The Importance of a Fleet-Hired Fleets—Poop Guards—Naval Tribunals—Navigation in theopen of Men-of-War—Towers and Ballistic Engines-Artillery—Naval and Magnificent Appointments of Vessels—Sailsand Flags—The Galley of Don Juan of Superstitions-Discipline andPunishments.
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