[posted] REPosted (#74719, Payne-Gallwey) !

A summary of the history, construction and effects in warfare of the 74719 projectile-throwing engines of the ancients with a treatise on the structure, power and management of Turkish and other Oriental bows of mediæval and later times, by Ralph Payne-Gallwey [Author: Ralph Payne-Gallwey] [Link: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74719] Thanks to Tim Lindell, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) Regards, Jacqueline