Meaning of mangonel in English
a large device used in wars in the past for throwing large rocks, for example at the walls of a castle that was being attacked, by pulling on ropes attached to a lever: The mangonel was the big gun of antiquity. A hundred yards away two great mangonels had been set up. Compare.
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The mangonel, also called the traction trebuchet, was a type of trebuchet used in Ancient China starting from the Warring States period, and later across Eurasia by the 6th century AD. Wikipedia
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The mangonel, also called the traction trebuchet, was a type of trebuchet used in Ancient China starting from the Warring States period, and later across ...
The torsion mangonel myth, or simply the myth of the mangonel, is the belief that mangonels were torsion siege engines such as the ballista or onager which ...
The mangonel was a type of catapult that was invented by the Romans around 400BC as a light alternative to the ballista. The mangonel is not as accurate as ...
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Posted: Oct 10, 2012
Posted: Oct 10, 2012