San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-09-21
FIGHTING WITHOUT FIREARMS.
Compiled for the Globe. Democrat. !

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communication.
For 300 years the Genoese were
the best cress.bowmen. At Crecy
there were $4,000 of them as mer-
eenaries..
In the twelfth century a hook
was attached to the footman's
spear, to enable him to dag a
knight from the saddle.
AT the siege of Jerusalem the
Romans had a catapult that threw
a stone weighing ITO pounds a
distance of 500 yards.
The amor of St. Louis in Egypt
was panic.stricken when Greek
fire was, thrown among the. men
from the Saracen catapults.
The lrsso is an invention Cf the
South American Indians, and was
In use when the country was dis.
covered by the Spaniards.
With a two handed sword God
frey of BOuillOn. at the siege of
Antioch, cut Turk into halves
from his shouldes to his hips.
Metal balls, filed with burning
oil and cOmbustibles, were used
by the Romans and afterwards by
both Turks and Greeks.
The battle.ax was originally a
Celtic weapon. The ancient Irish
carried axes as the men of other
nations carried swords,
The Roman army, under Angus.
tus, b. @. 8, comprised forty FIVE
legions, with $4,000 horse and 81.
600 light.armed irregulars.
The misericorde was a small
dagger with thin blade made to
reach the vitals of an antagonist
between the JOINTS of the armor.
Boiling oil, hot water, melted
pitch and. sulphur were always in
readiness during medieval siege;
to repel storming parties.
In the third crusade a single
stone from an English enging
killed twelve Turks, and after the
truce was shown to Saladin as a
curiosity.
During sieges in the twelfth
and two following centuries fam
ing arrows was discharged from
cross.bOws into the beleaguered
town.
Palamedes, of Argos, was the
first commander to array an army
in regular line of battle, to place
seAtinels or to give a watchword.
During the second Carthaginian
war, B. U. ZIG, the Roman legion
was 5000 men; under Marius, B.
@. SO, it was 600 foot and 700
horse.
Gideon defeated the Midianites
1245 through fight at the sound of
crashing earthenware and the
flash of lamps during a night at.
tack.
The Australian wummera is a
straight stick with tube in the
end in which the handle of a dart
is placed, the thrO w.stick remain.
ing in the hand.
At 200 feet only the best Span
ish armOr could resist the English
arrows. Many museums have
steel cOrslets through by an ar.
row.
In the fourteenth century armor
became so heavy that many sol
diers only 30 years old were de.
formed or permanently disabled
by it's weight.
A complete suit of horse armor
comprised the champot, head
piece; manifaire, neck piece; poit-
rel for the shoulders and crOupier
over the hips.
At the coming of the Spaniards,
1892, the most effective weapon
among the Caribbean Indians was
a wooden lance, the point hard.
ened in the fire.
Half armor was worn in the
Continental armies until the pres.
ent century. In exceptional cases,
body armor is still worn by speci-
al soldiers.
The Gauls, to make handles for
their stone axes, cleft the branch
of a tree, placed the AK in it and
left it till the wound in tho wood
had been completely healed.