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"Roman siege warfare had its own structure and customs, and expectations both by the besieged and by the attacking army. Sieges are typically sorted by the techniques and technologies that attackers used, but the more fruitful approach offered in Roman Siege Warfare examines the way a siege follows or diverges from typical narrative and operational plotlines. Author Josh Levithan emphasizes the human elements--morale and motivation--rather than the engineering, and he recaptures the sense of a siege as an event in progress that offers numerous attitudes, methods, and outcomes. Sieges involved a concentration of violent effort in space and the practical challenge posed by a high wall: unlike field battles they were sharply defined in time, in space, and in operational terms. Chapters examine motivation and behavior during a siege and focus on examples from both the Roman Republic and the Empire: Polybius, Livy, Julius Caesar, Flavius Josephus, and Ammianus Marcellinus. Levithan examines the "gadgetary turn," during which writers began to lavish attention on artillery and wall-damaging techniques, fetishizing technology and obscuring the centrality of the assault and of human behavior. This volume speaks to classicists and historians of all stripes. All passages are translated, and references are accessible to nonspecialists. Military historians will also find much of interest in the volume, in its treatment both of Roman military conduct and of wider military practice"--

Siege warfare --- Siege warfare --- Siege warfare --- Military art and science --- History. --- Psychological aspects. --- History --- History --- Rome --- History, Military.

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Artillery in the Era of the Crusades provides a detailed examination of the use of mechanical artillery in the Levant through the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Rather than focus on a selection of sensational anecdotes, Michael S. Fulton explores the full scope of the available literary and archaeological evidence, reinterpreting the development of trebuchet technology and the ways in which it was used during this period. Among the arguments put forward, Fulton challenges the popular perception that the invention of the counterweight trebuchet was responsible for the dramatic transformation in the design of fortifications around the start of the thirteenth century.

Catapult. --- Siege artillery --- Siege warfare --- Crusades. --- History

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Fortification --- Fortification, Primitive --- Forts --- Military engineering --- Siege warfare --- History.

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Cet ouvrage presente la transposition reussie par les officiers français du modele militaire de la guerre de siege alors en vigueur en Europe au contexte colonial de la Nouvelle-France. 1759. Le chevalier de La Pause, un officier français combattant en Nouvelle-France depuis 1755, note dans son journal : "Toute la science de la guerre en Canada consiste dans l'attaque ou la defense des postes qui ferment ou ouvrent la communication d'une frontiere à l'autre." Cette remarque revele, dans l'esprit des officiers europeens, la place occupee par la guerre de siege dans la conduite de la guerre en Amerique. Par extension, elle montre egalement l'importance de cette pratique particuliere de la guerre dans la culture militaire des armees europeennes au milieu du xviii e siecle. Ce livre met en lumiere la pratique de la guerre de siege en Nouvelle-France lors de la guerre de Sept Ans, en la comparant avec le modele theorique du siege en vigueur dans l'Europe du siecle des Lumieres.

Seven Years' War, 1756-1763. --- Siege warfare --- History --- Canada

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This book is about the diverse communities associated with English and British forts of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It casts new light on forts and their communities by asking new questions and applying innovative methodological approaches.

Fortification --- Fortification, Primitive --- Forts --- Military engineering --- Siege warfare --- History. --- Great Britain --- History, Military.