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Battering Rams, Ancient Roman Warfare
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Title: Battering Rams, Ancient Roman Warfare
Caption: The Battering Ram is the earliest, simplest, most effective device for destroying stone walls and the ordinary defenses of fortified towns. The primitive ram was a huge beam of seasoned and tough wood, hoisted on the shoulders of men. Running with it at full speed against a wall, gate, or palisade, they did what damage they could with one charge after another. Ancient armies used two different kinds of battering ram, one type was suspended and swinging, like a pendulum, and the other moved on rollers. Battering rams had an important effect on the evolution of defensive walls, which were constructed ever more ingeniously in a bid to nullify the effects of siege engines. Historical instances of the usage of battering rams in sieges of major cities include: destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, the Crusades,the fall of Rome and the siege of Constantinople.
Personalities: ROMAN IMPERIAL PERIOD
Category: ILLUSTRATION • black & white • History: Ancient
Credit: Album / Science Source / New York Public Library
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Image size: 3592 × 2864 px | 29.4 MB
Print size: 30.4 × 24.2 cm | 1414.2 × 1127.6 in (300 dpi)
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