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.

Battering rams still have a use in modern times.

Battering rams were also widespread.

Battering rams made little progress, but the fighting itself eventually set the walls on fire ; a Roman soldier threw a burning stick onto one of the Temple's walls.

* Battering ram, a type of siege engine designed to break open walls of fortifications or splinter wooden gates

Kafur's siege on Madurai continued for weeks, however, it turned futile as his army lacked any Ballistas or Trebuchets and relied on Battering Rams of inferior quality.

Called the Sturmbock ( Battering ram ) these machines could inflict heavy damage on unescorted bomber formations.

* The Brainiac Battering Ram Squad " fixing " an everyday problem with unnecessary force, such as opening a vending machine or a locked car

The river is continuously rapid, leading through larger drops at Battering Ram rapid and Corkscrew.

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* Wrangler – A " cosmic cowboy " that Chris became to battle Battering Ram.

* Battering Ram – Bruno Hogan was a mutant and former circus star that was fired for theft and vowed revenge.

He quickly earned the nickname " The Battering Ram " as he rushed for 1, 429 yards, and was named a First-Team All-Pro and Offensive Rookie of the Year.

AB 1593 seeks to provide victims of domestic violence who have suffered Intimate Partner Battering ( IPB ) a chance to present their evidence in an effective way during the parole process.

In 1997, they published the report of their investigation, titled The Validity and Use of Evidence Concerning Battering and Its Effects in Criminal Trials.

Battering Ram is a fictional character, a mutant in the Marvel Universe.

Battering Ram was a member of X-Statix for a short time.

Battering Ram tries several times to talk to his field leader, Zeitgeist, whom he calls ' Number One ', about his role in the team.

Anarchist believes that if it wasn't for Battering Ram and Zeitgeist simply being in the way, he would not have been able to leap out of the window in time and make it to safety.

Battering Ram's mutant powers gave him superhuman strength, stamina, durability, and reflexes, along with an armored skull with twin horns attached to it similar to a ram's.

The covered ark with golden staves carried by the priesthood ( Ancient Israel ) | priests, and seven priests with rams ' horns, at the siege of Jericho, in an eighteenth-century artist's depiction. The biblical account relates that during the Israelites ' exodus from Egypt, the Ark was carried by the priests some 2, 000 cubits in advance of the people and their army, or host.

Military devices such as catapults, trebuchets and battering rams are referred to as siege engines.

Historic military siege engines included large catapults, trebuchets, and ( to some extent ) battering rams were powered by potential energy.

In the Medieval period besieging armies used a wide variety of siege engines including: scaling ladders ; battering rams ; siege towers and various types of catapults such as the mangonel, onager, ballista, and trebuchet.

Though a simple battering ram had come into use in the previous millennium, the Assyrians improved siege warfare and used huge wooden tower-shaped battering rams with archers positioned on top.

A more detailed historical account from the 8th century BC, called the Piankhi stela, records how the Nubians laid siege to and conquered several Egyptian cities by using battering rams, archers, and slingers and building causeways across moats.

Reliefs from his reign, and subsequent reigns, depict siege towers in use with a number of other siege works, including ramps and battering rams.

The Roman army tries to breach the wall using testudos, mantlets, siege towers, and battering rams.

The introduction in the later Middle Ages of siege cannons, which harnessed the explosive power of gunpowder to propel weighty stone or iron balls against fortified obstacles, spelled the end of battering rams and other traditional siege weapons.

The first use of rams within the actual Mediterranean Basin, featuring in this case the simultaneous employment of siege towers to shelter the rammers from attack, occurred on the island of Sicily in 409 BC, at the Selinus siege.

However, the story is almost certainly untrue ; during the siege, which lasted only one month, no battering rams were used, although many cannons were.

The most notable engineers of ancient times were the Romans and Chinese, who constructed huge siege-machines ( catapults, battering rams and siege towers ) and were responsible for constructing fortified wooden camps and paved roads for their legions.

A moat made access to the walls difficult for siege weapons, such as siege towers and battering rams, which needed to be brought up against a wall to be effective.

The Spartans used battering rams in the Siege of Plataea in 429 BC, but it seems that the Greeks limited their use of siege engines to assault ladders, though Peloponnesian forces used something resembling flamethrowers.

The first Mediterranean people to use advanced siege machinery were the Carthaginians, who used siege towers and battering rams against the Greek colonies of Sicily.

Certain levels make use of the siege engine ( A new feature to the series ) and introduce specialized siege equipment such as bridge layers, battering rams and catapults to the stage.

Defenders manning castles, forts or bastions would sometimes try to foil battering rams by dropping obstacles in front of the ram, such as a large sack of sawdust, just before the ram's head struck a wall or gate, or by using grappling hooks to immobilize the ram's log.

The majority of Mark Antony's warships were quinqueremes, huge galleys with massive rams, that could weigh up to three hundred tons.

" Plough it with a rams horn, and sow it all over with one peppercorn " could be seen as a sexual reference.

Contracts were made with private shipyards in both Britain and France to build rams to Confederate naval specifications, but their ultimate purpose could not be disguised.

Leader Williams realised that if he used water-filled hydraulic rams to support the caissons instead, then the weight of the caissons would be borne by the rams and their cylinders, buried underground, and a much lighter superstructure could be used.

These could have reached an estimated top speed of up to 7. 5 knots, making them the first genuine warships when fitted with bow rams.