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Updated: July 23, 2025
About Whitsuntide he completed a great wooden castle upon the seashore, and placed in it numerous warlike engines, with forty men-at- arms and 200 archers, who kept such a watch upon the harbour that not even the two Abbeville sailors could enter it, without having their boats crushed and sunk by the great stones that the mangonels launched upon them.
The Mongol commander, Alihaya, sent to Persia, where the Mongols were also supreme, for engineers trained in the working of mangonels or catapults, engines capable of throwing stones of 160-pounds' weight with precision for a considerable distance.
See also my notes on illustrations for an account of the famous landscape roll painted by him in the style of Wang Wei. Bushell, op. cit., p. 135. Ibid., pp. 135-6, where the picture is reproduced. For the episode of the mangonels constructed by Nestorian mechanics under the directions of Nicolo and Maffeo see Marco Polo, op. cit., pp. 281-2. Marco Polo, op. cit., bk. III, c. I, pp. 321-3.
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