Show ANCIENT WARFARE I In the third crusade a single stone from I an English engine killed twelve Turks and after the truce was shown to Saladin as a curiosity During sieges in the twelfth and two following fol-lowing centuries flaming arrows were discharged dis-charged from crossbows into the beleaguered belea-guered town Palamedes of Argos was the first commander com-mander to array an army in regular line of battle to place sentinels or to give a watchword watch-word During the second Carthagenian war B C 210 the Roman legion was 5200 men under Marius B C SS It was 6200 foot and 700 horse Gideon defeated the Midianites B C 1545 through frighUat tho sound of crashing crash-ing earthenware and the flash of lamps during a night attack The Australian wummera is a straight stick with a tube in the end in which Ihe handle of a dart is placed tho throwstick remaining in the hand At 200 feet only the best Spanish armor could resist the English arrow Many museums have steel corselets pierced through by an arrow In tho fourteenth century armor became so heavy that many soldiers only thirty years old were deformed or permanently disabled by its weight |