Siege
THE SIEGES OFÂ ANTIOCH
Godfrey of Bouillon leads the siege of a city from a 14th-century French manuscript. The crusaders are deploying a wheeled tower that could be rolled right up to the defensive walls-a similar structure was used during the siege of Nicaea. The crusader knights clash with Muslim troops during the First Crusade’s second siege of Antioch from a French manuscript of…
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JERICHO
Date: 1405/1406(?) b.c. Location: just west of the Jordan River in modern eastern Israel. Forces Engaged: Hebrew: unknown. Commander: Joshua. Canaanite: unknown. Commander: unknown. Importance: The Hebrew destruction of Jericho cleared the first major hurdle for settlement in the Promised Land. Historical Setting Like the siege of Troy, the siege…
SIEGE OF TURIN
The attack of Prince Leopold of Anhalt Dessau. The Duke himself, Vittorio Amedeo II, who leaves the city, with much of his cavalry with him, to be able to exploit its effectiveness in the open field in cooperation with guerrilla operations which, so far, have proved very effective. Date: 14…
Siege Warfare Techniques
This scene, an illustration depicting the siege of Jerusalem, is from William of Tyre’s 14th Century “History” (Bibliotheque Nationale de France). It shows two trebuchets in use next to a wheeled siege tower. The trebs are fairly basically drawn, but show the main features – a box of rocks, a…
Toulouse – Sieges
An old Roman fort, the Château de Narbonne, was the citadel of Toulouse, but the demolitions of 1215–16 removed it from the circuit of the walls, and it served as headquarters of the Albigensian Crusade in the great siege of 1217–18. Toulouse, in southern France, was another great city which…
Siege of Kiev
The siege of Kiev, which ended on December 6, 1240, with the sack of the city, was the final great blow in the Mongol conquest of Russia. On the eve of the Mongol invasion, Kiev was, despite political turmoil, still the mother-city of Russia (including Ukraine and Belarussia); whichever prince…
Siege of Kulmbach 1553
Diorama of the siege of Kulmbach 1553. The battle is recreated in the German Tin Soldiers Museum in Kulmbach. Margrave Albrecht Alcibiades of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1522-57) had tried to create a Franconian dukedom for himself at the expense of the Franconian prince-bishoprics WĂĽrzburg, Bamberg, Eichstätt and the imperial cities Schweinfurt and…