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The Trebuchet
thrown from trebuchets. Vassaf 1 records ' that when the
garrison of Delhi refused to open the gates to Ala'uddin Khilji in 1296,
he loaded his mangonels with bags of gold and shot them into the fortress,
a measure which put an end to the opposition.'
Figs. 211, 212, 214, explain the construction and working of a trebuchet.
1 Persian historian, lived at end of thirteenth
and beginning of fourteenth century. The preface to his history is dated
1288, and the latter is carried down to 1312. |
