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A summary of the history, construction and effects in warfare of the projectile-throwing engines of the ancients, with a treatise on the structure, power and management of Turkish and other Oriental bows of mediæval and later times

Note 15 — PART IV THE TREBUCHET

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Villard de Honnecourt, an engineer of the thirteenth century. His album translated and edited by R. Willis, M.A., 1859.

16 Jean, Sire de Joinville. He went with St. Louis to Damietta. His memoirs, written in 1309, published by F. Michel, 1858.

17 Abulfeda, 1273–1331. Arab soldier and historian, wrote Annals of the Moslems. Published by Hafnire, 1789–94. Abulfeda was himself in charge of one of the hundred carts.

18 From an old history of the siege (in manuscript) found in the town hall of Orleans and printed by Saturnin Holot, a bookseller of that city, 1576.

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