 | Edward Gibbon - 1880 - 662 pages
...gun. Von Hammer, p. 520 whole towers and cities into the air.41 A circumstance that distinguishes the siege of Constantinople is the reunion of the ancient and modern artillery. The cannon were inte/mingled with the mechanical engines for casting stones and darts ; the bullet and the battering-ram... | |
 | Stanley Lane-Poole - 1888 - 414 pages
...mechanical engines for casting stones and darts ; the bullet and the battering-ram were directed against the 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 Nor had the discovery of gunpowder superseded the use of the liquid and unextinguishable fire.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 on rollers ; this portable... | |
 | 1891 - 154 pages
...and cities into the air. A circumstance that distinguishes the siege of Constantinople is the union of the ancient and modern artillery. The cannon were...of gunpowder superseded the use of the liquid and unextinguishable fire. A wooden turret of the largest size was advanced on rollers : this portable... | |
 | Helmuth Graf von Moltke - 1893 - 670 pages
...intermingled with the mechanical engines tor casting stones and darts; the bullet and the battering ram were directed against the same walls; nor had the...of gunpowder superseded, the use of the liquid and unextiuguishaole fire.'" 208) ©ibbon aa 0. 226 f., aber bet îburm beä íjeiltgen SlomnnuS roar felbcr... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - 1895 - 460 pages
...gunpowder, and blowing whole towers and cities into the air. A circumstance, that distinguishes the siege of Constantinople, is the reunion of the ancient...of gunpowder superseded the use of the liquid and inextinguishable fire. A wooden turret, of the largest size, was advanced on rollers ; this portable... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 600 pages
...gunpowder, and blowing whole towers and cities into the air. A circumstance that distinguishes the siege of Constantinople is the reunion of the ancient...and the battering-ram were directed against the same wall ; nor had the discovery of gunpowder superseded the use of the liquid and unextinguishable fire.... | |
 | Stanley Lane-Poole, Elias John Wilkinson Gibb, Arthur Gilman - 1899 - 418 pages
...gunpowder, and blowing whole towers and cities into the air. A circumstance that distinguishes the siege of Constantinople is the reunion of the ancient...bullet and the battering-ram were directed against the walls. Nor had the discovery of gunpowder superseded the use of the liquid and unextinguishable fire.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1899 - 660 pages
...modern artillery. The cannon were inter mingled with the mechanical engines for casting stones ant darts ; the bullet and the battering-ram * were directed...against the same walls : nor had the discovery of gunpowdei superseded the use of the liquid and unextinguishable fire. A wooden turret of the largest... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - 1900 - 424 pages
...circumstance, that distinguishes the siege of Constantinople, is the reunion of the ancient and modem artillery. The cannon were intermingled with the mechanical...of gunpowder superseded the use of the liquid and inextinguishable fire. A wooden turret, of the largest size, was advanced on rollers ; this portable... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1900 - 540 pages
...(Hist, de la Ligue de Cam bray, torn. ii. p. 93-97). rhanic.il engines for casting stones and darts ; 52 the bullet and the battering-ram were directed against...of gunpowder superseded the use of the liquid and [Th.heiepoiii unextinguishable fire. A wooden turret of the largest size was "cMGau.'Sii advanced on... | |
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A circumstance that distinguishes the siege of Constantinople is the reunion of the ancient and modern artillery. The cannon were intermingled with the mechanical engines for casting stones and darts; the bullet and the battering-ram were directed against... 
