CASTLES
Their
Construction and
History

CASTLES
Their
Construction and
History

CASTLES
Their
Construction and
History

MODERN
PREFACE
researches
point strongly
to the
conclusion
that the
art
of fortification
had
reached
a
high
state of
development even
at
the dawn of history.
Powerful
military
works, dating
from
the
remotest periods, have
been
found in
Asia Minor, in
Greece, and in
the
basins
of the
Tigris,
the Euphrates,
and the Nile. And
in the
development
of the art through
the ages
it is also clear that
the
peoples of these countries
in their
continuous
conflicts with
each other, and later
with
the legions of
Rome, learnt and
adopted
the methods
of attack and
defence of their foes
and
in
the course
of
time their
military works
became more and more
similar.

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