The record-union., 1893-02-14
ANTIQUE WEAPONS.
The Soldiers That Fought Without
Firearms.
Pixies. Swords, Lances, Shields. Hell
NETS, Sings, Cross-Bows and
Catapults.
The Greek pike was "A feet long.

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| The Greek pike was "A feet long.
The medieval lance was Is feet long.
The standard Roman sword was %
! inches.
The hemlet of Richard I. weighed %
! pounds.
The rabbis say Cain killed Abel with a
club
David slew Goliah with sling-stone,
B. c. 1868
The cross bow came into use in the
twelfth century.
The pully-drawn cross-bow had range
OF forty rods.
Projecting engines were first invented
by the Greeks.
Mixed chain and plate armor was used
from 1890 to ITO.
Gustavus Adolphus abolished all armor
but light cuiraSs.
The French infantry were armed with
the pike until 1910.
Damascus blades were famous all over
the world b. c. $40.
The quarrels thrown by cross-bows
often weighed six pounds.
Shields were not used in England after
the reign OF Henry VII.
Greek swords were short cut and thrust,
leaf-shaped blades.
The cross-bows of the fourteenth cent
ury weighed fifteen pounds.
Swords equal to the best ever made are
still produced i'll Toledo.
Greek hemlets covered the head, back
OF the neck, ears and nose.
The battles OF Crecy, Poltiers and Agin-
court were won by the archers.
The bow appears among the earliest
sculptures of Egypt, B. c. 1000.
In the seventeenth century German
swords were most highly esteemed.
Annlnnt ,,1l
by 100 or $50 men, generally captives.
The double-handed swords of medi;e-
val times often weighed 30 pounds.
In naval warfare the ancieuts used
graphing hooks and boarding bridges.
Many suits of armor worn in the four
teenth century weighed It's pounds EACH
Pliny ascribes the invention of the sling
to the Ph9necians about B. c. 2OO0
In 12l6 heavy cavalry were covered,
horse and man, with scale or chain ar
NOR.
Stone arrow-points and hatchets have
been found in every country in the world.
Longbow strings were of plated silk,
and worth five times their weight i'll gold,
At the siege of Jerusalem the Romans
had 400 large, and nearly two hundred
small catapults.
The saber is an oriental weapon. 1t
was introduced into the French cavalry
in ITO.
The catapult was invented in Syracuse
436 b. c., in the reign of Dionysius the
Elder.
The great two-handed sword was, when
not in action, carried on the back like q
guitar.
The sword of Henry the Pious, Duke
of Silesia, was six feet long and weighed
thirty pounds.
The sling was made of wooden stuff,
and the singers always stood behind the
infantry.
Egyptian bronze swords, made B. C.
$500, were from two to three feet long,
with double edge.
The Mexican flint knives were made
so sharp that they could be used for
trimming the hair.
The shield of Hector, when slung at his
back in walking, covered the body from
neck to heel.
Cross bowmen were always attended
by shield-bearers who protected them in
action.
The largest catapults threw beams six
feet long, weighing sixty pounds, over
quarter of mile.
The legion was formed by Romulus b.
C. 10. 1t originally consisted of 8, 600 foot
and 500 horse.
Some of the wooden towers erected to
attack besieged city were ten stories
high, about one hundred feet.
Toledo and Damascus blades were very
popular in the Middle Ages and sold for
their weight IN gold.
When Cortez invaded Mexico for the
second time he had eighty musk eteers and
eighty cross-bowmen.
The value OF infantry was not fully rec
ognlZed by medieval commanders until
the fifteenth century.
The armor of the fourteenth century
was so heavy that fallen knight could
not rise without assistance.
Tho lnnor hnTy !.
ern Europe in the eighth century; bows
were SIX feet long, arrows three
knightly lances were from twelve to
twenty feet long, the heads four to eight
inches broad, and from twelve to twenty
inches long.
The Amazon Indians use g blowpipe
with which they throw an arrow I0O
yards with wonderful precision.
The misericorde was small dapger.
with thin blade, made to reach the Vitals
OF an antagonist between the Joints of The
armor.
Palmedes of Argos was the first COM
mander to array an army in regular line
OF battle, TO place senlnels or TO give
watchword.
At 200 feet only the best Spanish armor
could resist the English arrow. MANY
museums have steel corselets pierced
through by an arrow.
In the fourteenth century armor be-
came SO heaVy that many soldiers, only
80 years old, were deformed or per1na-
nently disabled by its weight.
Mining and countermining were extern
siyely practiced during the ancient sieees.
The mine was made, the roof supported
by timbers; when all was ready the
beams were set on fire and the wall
caved in.
In l4lS a battle was fought near Milan,
in Italy, and SO perfect was the armor of
both armies that, though the conflict
ragged from A. VI. to t. p. NJ, no one on
either side was either killed or wounded,
though one man broke his collar-bo by
falling off his horse.
a complete suit of knightly armor con-
tanned the helmet, the cuirass for breast:
epaulieres for shoulders; brassarts, up
per arms; coudieres, elbows; avant-bras.
lower arms; gauntlets, gloves faudes for
tanks; haubergeon, "A quilted surcoat;
cuissarts, thigh pieces; genouillieres. knee
guards; grevieres, leg pieces; solerets.
shoes and spurs.
On the shield of Achilles, described by
Homer, were represented the earth, the
sky, the sea, the sun, the moon, all the
consultations, two cities with crowds
filling the forums and arms besieging
town, besides battles, single combats, ru-
raj scenes, harvest scenes, vintage scenes.
pictures OF home life, dances, cattle herd
ing, lion and bull fighting, and a vast va
riety of NEUROLOGICAL subjects.-St. Louis
Globe-Democrat
THE HAIR.