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Abgeschickt von Martine am 09 Mai, 2003 um 19:04:19:

FHi alle,

das hier ist so göttlich, das wollte ich euch nicht vorenthalten, nicht nur, daß es mich in unbegrenzte Heiterkeit versetzte, es ist auch *Our Lady* in O-Ton. Ich sehe sie regelrecht vor mir, wie sie das erklärt,- und merkt ihr auch den Heidenspaß, den sie daran hatte?

Siege-machine: RONDO, 22
Not everything worked, even in the most expensive of battle camps. Charles, Duke of Burgundy,* besieging Neuss (july 1474 - June 1475) was charmed ba a Castilian nobleman into accepting a novel plan for a siege-engine made like a crane. Twenty feet long, it could hold three hundred men, and was supposed to roll up to the town and take its walls by assault using a sixty-foot ladder as a bridge. At the same time, the carpenters of Campobasso and Galeotto, the Duke's Italian mercenaries, set to work on another idea: a splendid castle on twenty-four wheels, called a 'chat'.
Unfortunately, when the time came to put them both into action, the wheels of the chat broke, and the crane slowly sank into the sand.
At this point, it came to the Duke that the siege was about to last a very long time (D.D.)




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