This is an overview of Chinese siege weapons. Siege ladders were used starting from the Warring States period. A hinged folding ladder known as the "cloud...

Jieming (2006). Chinese Siege Warfare: Mechanical Artillery & Siege Weapons of Antiquity. Leong Kit Meng. ISBN 981-05-5380-3. Look up siege engine in Wiktionary...

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Ancient Greek military personal equipment Chinese siege weapons Helepolis List of siege engines Category:Siege equipment Castle: Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections...

properties to inflict burns or damage. These weapons or devices could be used by individuals, thrown by siege engines, or utilised as army strategy. Incendiary...

carrying hooks and glaive weapons Dutch depiction of a Ming soldier holding a glaive weapon Chinese armour Chinese siege weapons Lorge 2011, p. 43. Mao (矛)...

Jieming (2006). Chinese Siege Warfare: Mechanical Artillery & Siege Weapons of Antiquity, p. 30 Wood, Frances (1995). Did Marco Polo go to China?, London: Secker...

This is a list of siege engines invented through history. A siege engine is a weapon used to circumvent or destroy fortifications such as defensive walls...

is also known as the Chinese sabre, although those with wider blades are sometimes referred to as Chinese broadswords. In China, the dao is considered...

the Chinese war effort. Li Hongzhang was able to use the siege as a political weapon against his rivals in Beijing as he controlled the Chinese telegraph...

Introduction and Use of Gunpowder and Firearms among the Chinese, "Journal of the North China Branch Royal Asiatic Society, 6 (1871), 89. Maspero, Georges...

sultani in Arabic. In China, the mangonel was called the pào (砲). The mangonel originated in ancient China. Torsion-based siege weapons such as the ballista...

cannons over other siege weapons was the ability to fire a heavier projectile, farther, faster, and more often than previous weapons. They could also fire...

The siege of Tsingtao (German: Belagerung von Tsingtau; Japanese: 青島の戦い; simplified Chinese: 青岛战役; traditional Chinese: 青島戰役) was the attack on the German...

understood as weapons but are not combat weapons, such as ceremonial weapons and ritual tools shaped or conceptualized as weapons, hunting weapons, and other...

(2006). Chinese Siege Warfare: Mechanical Artillery & Siege Weapons of Antiquity – An Illustrated History. Nicolle, David (2002), Medieval Siege Weapons 1,...

dated 1380–1385. Initially used as defensive weapons, primitive bombards began to be used as siege weapons in the later 14th century. Henry IV and Henry...

history, weapons have changed with it. The use of weapons is a major driver of cultural evolution and human history up to today, since weapons are a type...

States: Brills. pp. 78–106. Liang, Jieming (2006), Chinese Siege Warfare: Mechanical Artillery & Siege Weapons of Antiquity, Singapore, Republic of Singapore:...

Recherche Scientifique. Liang, Jieming (2006). Chinese Siege Warfare: Mechanical Artillery & Siege Weapons of Antiquity – An Illustrated History. Needham...

(UK: /ˈɒnədʒə/, /ˈɒnəɡə/; US: /ˈɑːnədʒər/) was a Roman torsion-powered siege engine. It is commonly depicted as a catapult with a bowl, bucket, or sling...

Nanyang (南陽), Henan] are as cruel as wasps and scorpions." Iron weapons also gave Chinese armies an edge over barbarians. Han Fei recounts that during a...

The fire lance (simplified Chinese: 火枪; traditional Chinese: 火槍; pinyin: huǒqiāng; lit. 'fire spear') was a gunpowder weapon used by lighting it on fire...

Conquests Univ of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. "Chinese Siege Warfare: Mechanical Artillery & Siege Weapons of Antiquity" by Liang Jieming ISBN 981-05-5380-3...

armor, early gunpowder weapons, and other advanced weapons, but also adopted nomadic cavalry and Western military technology. China's armies also benefited...

The siege of the Chinese University of Hong Kong was a part of the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests. As protesters disrupted traffic to facilitate a general...

retrieved 11 February 2018 Leong Kit Meng (2006). Chinese siege warfare: mechanical artillery & siege weapons of antiquity, an illustrated history. University...

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typically used as indirect fire weapons for close fire support with a variety of ammunition. Historically mortars were heavy siege artillery. Mortars launch...

large and small cannons were developed for siege and field battles. The cannon replaced prior siege weapons such as the trebuchet. After the Middle Ages...