The latter sent Al al-Din and Ismail, together with their families, by post route to Hangzhou, where they began by building large mangonels which they erected in front of the city gates.
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Though they do not have a demon or angel to aid them, Renaissance players can construct a series of siege engines such as trebuchets, mangonels and even primitive rocket launchers that more than compensate for this loss.
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In his book, " Medieval Siege ", Jim Bradbury extensively quotes from Tarsusi concerning mangonels of various types, including Arab, Persian and Turkish, describing what could be trebuchets, but not quoted as above.
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At one point, a general of al-Amin known as al-Samarqandi used boats to transport mangonels on the river Tigris and bombard enemy positions in the suburbs of Baghdad inflicting more damage to the civilian population than to the besiegers.
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Some permit, some restrict, and some disapprove of the use of mangonels, poisoned arrows, and the poisoning of enemy water supplies _ the missile and chemical warfare of the Middle Ages _ out of concern for the indiscriminate casualties that these weapons inflict.
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The walls were constantly pounded by the siege engines, catapults, mangonels, mined, and it collapsed on September 29 . The crusaders were unable to push Saladin's troops back from the breach, but at the same time the Muslims could not gain entrance to the city.
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Medieval designs include a large number of catapults such as the Mangonel, Onager, the ballista, the traction trebuchet ( first designed in China in the 3rd century BC and brought over to Europe in the 4th century AD ), and the counterweight trebuchet ( first described by Mardi bin Ali al-Tarsusi in the 12th century, though of unknown origin ).
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Medieval weapons of the same type ( such as rifles and cannons or mangonels and trebuchets ) are compared and tested in rate of fire, how easy it is to make and to use, fatality ( usually using a pig carcass ), overall power, accuracy etc . The weapon which would win most of the rounds in the end is deemed the perfect weapon for the category.
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Friar William Houston became Minister of Fail in the early 16th century however his nephew attempted to oust him and went so far as to invade Failford " " . . with a body of supporters armed with balistas, bows, mangonels and all sorts of offensive arms, and had broken down the gate and all the doors in an attempt to oust the minister . ""
