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Alexander : a history of the origin and growth of the art of war from ...

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176 MOVING THE TOWERS.Tower with Drawbridge <strong>and</strong> Ram.rested on eiaht wheels wliose felloes were six feet wide <strong>and</strong>heavily ironed, as was also <strong>the</strong> tower. It took three thous<strong>and</strong>four hundred men to move it, worldng no doubt inrelays. These towers were <strong>of</strong> course pushed for<strong>war</strong>d y&rjslowly <strong>and</strong> probably by levers applied to <strong>the</strong> wheels <strong>from</strong> <strong>the</strong>inside. Plutarch says that it took a month to move a bigtower two hundred <strong>and</strong> fifty paces. Diodorus states that <strong>the</strong>ycould be moved one thous<strong>and</strong> paces in less time. The raising<strong>and</strong> moving <strong>of</strong> buildings to-day explains to a certain extenthow all this was done. The towers contained reservoirs <strong>of</strong>

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