 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 pages
...same walls; nor had the discovery of gunpowder superseded the use of the liquid and unextinguishable fire. A wooden turret of the largest size was advanced...by a threefold covering of bulls hides; incessant vollies were securely discharged from the loop-holes; in the front, three doors were contrived for... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 564 pages
...of ammunition and fascines was protected by a threefold covering of bulls hides ; incessant vollies were securely discharged from the loop-holes ; in...staircase to the upper platform, and as high as the levej of that platform, a scaling-ladder could be raised by pullies to form a bridge, and grapple with... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 498 pages
...same walls; nor liad the discovery of gunpowder superseded the use of the liquid and (inextinguishable fire. A wooden turret of the largest size was advanced...fascines was protected by a threefold covering of bull's hides ; incessant volties were securely discharged from the loop-holes; in the front, three... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 594 pages
...same walls ; nor had the discovery of gunpowder superseded the use of the liquid and inextinguishable fire. A wooden turret of the largest size was advanced...to the upper platform ; and, as high as the level ofthat platform, a scaling ladder could be raised by pullies to form a bridge and grapple with the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 542 pages
...same walls; nor had the discovery of gunpowder superseded the use of the liquid and unextinguishable fire. A wooden turret of the largest size was advanced...magazine of ammunition and fascines was protected by a three- ' ~ fold covering of bulls' hides : incessant volleys were securely discharged from the loop-holes... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1829 - 482 pages
...same walls ; nor had the discovery of gunpowder superseded the use of the liquid and inextinguishable fire. A wooden turret of the largest size was advanced...platform ; and, as high as the level of that platform, a scaling ladder could be raised by pullies to form a bridge and grapple with the adverse rampart. By... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1832 - 374 pages
...superseded the use of the liquid and unextiuguish• Gibbon's History, vol. x. pp. 15 — 16, c. 5t. able fire. A wooden turret of the largest size was advanced...fascines was protected by a threefold covering of bull's hides ; incessant vollies were securely discharged from the loopholes ; in the front, three... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1832 - 392 pages
...gunpowder" (of which also brimstone is an ingredient) "superseded the use of the liquid and unextinguishable fire. A wooden turret of the largest size was advanced...fascines was protected by a threefold covering of bull's hides; incessant vdlies were securely discharged from the loop-holes ; in the front, three doors... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1841 - 504 pages
...same walls ; nor had the discovery of gunpowder superseded the use of the liquid and inextinguishable fire. A wooden turret of the largest size was advanced...this portable magazine of ammunition and fascines WEIS protected by a threefold covering of bulls' hides ; incessant volleys were securely discharged... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 332 pages
...directed against the same walls ; nor had the discovery of gunpowder superseded the use of the Greek fire. A wooden turret of the largest size was advanced...fascines was protected by a threefold covering of bull's hides ; and incessant volleys were securely discharged from the loop-holes. In the front, three... | |
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... hides ; incessant volleys were securely discharged from the loop-holes ; in the front, three doors were contrived for the alternate sally and retreat of the soldiers and workmen. They ascended, by a staircase, to the upper platform ; and, as high... 
