siegework

I looked in, found only a handful of patients and the situation under control, went on to check the siegework.

The next three days were simple siegework in support of the sapping teams.

Chapter Twenty The next day the regular siegework began again.

The Malwa are fond of using us for siegework.

Once the body was loaded, she told the Lieutenant, "Begin your preliminary siegework immediately."

If this is in fact such a siegework, it would be a unique survival in England from this period.

Cannon were later used during the English Civil War for both siegework and extensively on the battlefield.

The Lieutenant knew siegework well.

The Consies must have commandeered ordinary transport for more critical purposes, using makeshifts to support the sluggish pace of siegework.

The entire city of Ranapur was surrounded by wooden palisades, earthen walls, trenches, and every other form of siegework.

The siege was largely undertaken by the Adiabenian contingent, since the Parthians, being cavalrymen, were unskilled and unwilling to engage in siegework.

That was just basic siegework, employed since the dawn of time and one reason your thoughtful modern prince builds his stronghold on a crag or headland or island.

Indeed, Charles failed to win a single one of the five significant battles he fought against the English between 1342 and 1364, although he proved more efficient at siegework and lengthy campaigns.

In siegework they are called testudos or tortugas-wooden frames, sometimes wheeled, and hung all over with armoring of some kind, used to protect rams or mines and their crews from defenders atop walls.