Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1893 — FIGHTING WITHOUT FIREARM [ARTICLE]

FIGHTING WITHOUT FIREARM

Greek swords were short cut and thrust, leaf-shaped blades. Swords equal to the best ever made are still produced in Toledo Greek helmets oovered the heal back of neck, ears and nose. Thj partisan was the last form of the lance* preceding the bayctoet. Axmen In the French army still wear heavy helmets and corselets. In the fourteenth century axes wer.fixed on the shafts of lances. Shields were not used in England after the reign of Henry VII. Leather cuirasses were used by the Romans in their early history. The Crusaders stormed Je.usal.em with the aid of wooden towers. The cross-bows of the fourteenth century weighed fifteen pound.-. The bow appears among the earliest sculptures of Egypt, B. C. 4000. During the Middle Age. 3 tne Span lards were the best javelinmen. Military hammers were first commonly used In the tenth century. Pictures of helmets appear on tliEgyptian monuments B. C. 30 o. In the seventeenth century ( e:ma:: swords were most highly esteemed The battles of Crecy, l o t « s and Agincourt were won by the archer-;. In naval warfare the ancients us -d grapling hooks and boarding bridges Ancient battering rams were niunne : by 100 or 150 men, generally captives The morning star, or spiked c >i -. tame into use in the eleventh ccui u, During the ohivalric ages an ar y was computed by the number of lan The double-handed sword of u a : - val times often weighed thirty p<> n-ls. Many suits of armor worn in the four-t teenth century weighed 175 pounds eu dr. Pliny ascribes the invention <>i the sling to the Phoenicians, about B. 2000.