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| 41 | 173 | "They can View more quotes about conceal">conceal and protect men, be wheeled to walls, overtop walls, and, when they suddenly drop their gates, permit besiegers bearing shields to rush downward with great force upon defenders". |
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| 41 | 170 | Most such assaults are turned back with a great loss of life. |
| 41 | 171 | That is one reason towns and cities have walls". |
| 41 | 172 | "That is a great advantage of siege towers," said Clitus. |
| 41 | 173 | "They can conceal and protect men, be wheeled to walls, overtop walls, and, when they suddenly drop their gates, permit besiegers bearing shields to rush downward with great force upon defenders". |
| 41 | 174 | "They have no siege towers," I said. |
| 41 | 175 | "Nor do they have thousands of men". |
| 41 | 176 | "This is not a war between great cities with enormous resources," said Thurnock. |