- the
origin of the term. In
Arabic the
counterweight trebuchet was
called manjaniq maghribi or
majaniq ifranji. In
China it was
called the húihúi pào (Muslim...
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operated by
military engineers. However, the
primary siege weapon was the
manjaniq, a type of
siege weapon that was
comparable to the
trebuchet emplo**** in...
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marched towards Ranthambore. They
besieged the
Ranthambore fort with
manjaniqs (siege engines), but were
unable to
capture the fort.
Jalaluddin ultimately...
- of
unsuccessful siege, the
attackers pelted stones on the fort
using manjaniqs (mangonels), but
still failed to
capture the fort. Finally, on 26 August...
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plain and
round saddles. The
artillery used the
arradah (ballista), the
manjaniq (mangonel), and the
dabbabah or
kabsh (battering ram). The
heavy engines...
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military sophistication, the
Arabs had even
started to
adopt manjaniq ifranji or
manjaniq firanji, the
Frankish or
European trebuchet, a stone-throwing...
- as a
generous king, he
ordered 5
manns of gold
pieces to be shot from a
manjaniq (catapult) at a
crowd in Kara. One
section of his army, led by himself...
- mangana)
petrobolos ("stone thrower")
cheiroballista ("hand ballista")
manjanîq polybolos ("multi-thrower") ****
cornu ("with horn")
manuballista ("hand...
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during the
period included rockets,
cauldrons of
boiling oil,
muskets and
manjaniqs (stone-throwing catapults).
Daulatabad cannon Kalak Bangadi cannon. One...
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previous torsion machines such as the onager. The
mangonel was
called al-
manjanīq, arrada, shaytani, or
sultani in Arabic. In China, the
mangonel was called...
