The Hutchinson Dictionary of Ancient & Medieval WarfareThe Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Warfareprovides a comprehensive guide to the battles and wars, commanders, tactics, formations, fortifications, and weapons of war in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, India, China, and Japan from the beginning of recorded history to the 16th century. More than 3,000 entries, written by expert military historians, cover all aspects of warfare from the emergence of the earliest walled cities in the Ancient Near East up to and including the period of European discovery of the New World. The Dictionary is unique, the only work to cover 3,500 years of military history. Expert authors writing in their specialty have created the most comprehensive and accessible reference work ever produced on this subject. |
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The Hutchinson Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Warfare Peter Connolly,John Gillingham,John Lazenby Visualização parcial - 2016 |
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Página 299 - DU§AN. c. 1350. the Danube to the Gulf of Corinth and from the Adriatic to within a short distance of Adrianople.
Página 226 - It overlooked the Pacific Ocean on the east and the China Sea on the west, and consisted of a series of terraced compounds which rose to the top of the flattened hill.
Página 136 - Wall itself ran from Bowness on the Solway Firth to Wallsend on the river Tyne, a distance of 110 km/68 mi.
Página 109 - Castilian throne, he invaded Spain in 1366 and achieved victory over a Franco-Castilian force at Najéra. The murder of his ally, King Pedro, negated this victory. Returning to Aquitaine, his rule was unpopular due to the cost of the Spanish expedition, and his recapture of Limoges was seen as unnecessarily cruel. He died of dropsy (oedema). Edward the Elder (c. 870-924) king of the West Saxons. He succeeded his father QAlfred the Great in 899. He reconquered southeast England and the Midlands from...
Página 69 - ... for C.'s help against the emir of Cordova. C. crossed the Pyrenees in 778, and reached the Ebro, but had to turn back from Saragossa. The rearguard action of Roncesvalles in which Roland, warden of the Breton March, and other Prankish nobles were ambushed and killed by Basque hordes, became immortal in the Chanson de Roland. In 801 the district between the Pyrenees and the Llobregat was organized as the Spanish March. The independent duchy of Bavaria was incorporated in the kingdom in 788, while...
Página 68 - ... by the Pope in 754 along with his father and his younger brother Carloman. When Pepin d. in 768, C. inherited the N. part of the Prankish kingdom, and when Carloman d. in 771, C. also took possession of his countries. In 770 he m. the dau. of the king of the Lombards, whom a year later he divorced. He was engaged in his first Saxon campaign when the Pope's call for help against the Lombards reached him; he crossed the Alps, captured Pavia, and took the title of king of the Lombards. The pacification...
Página 83 - In 337 he set out to defend the Euphrates frontier against the Persians, but died at Nicomedia in Asia Minor before reaching it.
Página 15 - The greater part of the angon is covered with iron and very little wood is exposed. In battle the Frank throws the angon and if it hits an enemy ... the barbs hold inside the flesh. If the angon strikes a shield, it is fixed there, hanging down with butt on the ground. The angon cannot be pulled out because the barbs have penetrated the shield, nor can it be cut off with a sword because the wood of the shaft is covered with iron'.
Página 108 - Edward was a noted castle builder, including the northern Welsh QConway castle, QCaernarvon castle, QBeaumaris castle, and QHarlech castle. He was also responsible for building fybastides to defend the English position in France. Edward III (1310-77) king of England from 1327, son of Edward II. He assumed the government in 1330 from his mother, through whom in 1337 he laid claim to the French throne and thus began the QHundred Years
Página 149 - Herodotus was the first historian to apply critical evaluation to his material, while also recording divergent opinions.
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| Título | The Hutchinson Dictionary of Ancient & Medieval Warfare |
| Autor | Matthew Bennett |
| Editores | Matthew Bennett, Peter Connolly, John Gillingham, John Lazenby |
| Editora | Taylor & Francis, 1998 |
| ISBN | 1579581161, 9781579581169 |
| Num. págs. | 365 páginas |
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