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They were also carried into the Muslim world, from which they were reintroduced into the West to form the foundation of Medieval philosophy and the Renaissance, as discussed below.
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The Assyrians were also innovative in military technology with the use of heavy cavalry, sappers, siege engines etc.
The cheirosiphōnes especially were prescribed for use at land and in sieges, both against siege machines and against defenders on the walls, by several 10th-century military authors, and their use is depicted in the Poliorcetica of Hero of Byzantium. The Byzantine dromons usually had a siphōn installed on their prow under the forecastle, but additional devices could also on occasion be placed elsewhere on the ship.
Subsequent authors continued to refer to the cheirosiphōnes, especially for use against siege towers, although Nikephoros II Phokas also advises their use in field armies, with the aim of disrupting the enemy formation.
The Siege of Kenilworth Castle in 1266 was " probably the longest in English history " according to historian Norman Pounds, and at the time was also the largest siege to have occurred in England in terms of the number of soldiers involved.
Arrow slits, concealed doors for sallies, and deep water wells were also integral to resisting siege at this time.
As Carthage was under siege and engaged in a difficult civil war, they begrudgingly accepted the loss of these islands and the subsequent Roman conditions for ongoing peace, which also increased the war indemnity levied against Carthage after the first Punic War.
Additionally, the spread of rockets into Europe was also influenced by the Ottomans at the siege of Constantinople in 1453, although it is very likely that the Ottomans themselves were influenced by the Mongol invasions of the previous few centuries.
Sancho was killed in the siege of Zamora by the traitor Bellido Dolfos ( also known as Vellido Adolfo ) in 1072.
Bruce also made raids into northern England and, landing at Ramsey in the Isle of Man, then laid siege to Castle Rushen in Castletown capturing it on 21 June 1313 to deny the island's strategic importance to the English.
Sieges involve surrounding the target and blocking the reinforcement or escape of troops or provision of supplies ( a tactic known as " investment "), typically coupled with attempts to reduce the fortifications by means of siege engines, artillery bombardment, mining ( also known as sapping ), or the use of deception or treachery to bypass defences.
Battering rams and siege hooks could also be used to force through gates or walls, while catapults, ballistae, trebuchets, mangonels, and onagers could be used to launch projectiles in order to break down a city's fortifications and kill its defenders.
A siege tower, a substantial structure built to equal or greater height than the fortification's walls, could allow the attackers to fire down upon the defenders and also advance troops to the wall with less danger than using ladders.
A sufficient supply of food and water was also important to defeat the simplest method of siege warfare: starvation.
Arrow slits ( also called arrow loops or loopholes ), sally ports ( airlock-like doors ) for sallies, and deep water wells were also integral means of resisting siege at this time.
Used since the 11th century BC in the ancient Near East, the 4th century BC in Europe and also in antiquity in the Far East, siege towers were of unwieldy dimensions and, like trebuchets, were therefore mostly constructed on site of the siege.
At this siege the attackers also made use of " sows "-mobile armoured shelters which were used throughout the medieval period, and allowed workers to fill in moats with protection from the defenders ( thus levelling the ground for the siege towers to be moved to the walls ).
The Jacobite pretender to the thrones of United Kingdom and France, Charles Edward Stuart, who was under 14 then, also participated in the French and Spanish siege of Gaeta, making his first exposure to battle.
* 1271 – Baibars conducts an unsuccessful siege of the city of Tripoli, and also fails in an attempted naval invasion of Cyprus.
Heartened by this victory, he lifted the siege of Ancona and hurried to Rome where he not only had his wife crowned empress, but he also received a second coronation at the hands of Paschal III.
* Mamluk sultan Baibars conducts an unsuccessful siege of the city of Tripoli, and also fails in an attempted naval invasion of Cyprus.
Lastly, over to the south of Mafeking lay the diamond mining city of Kimberley, which was also subjected to a siege.

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