British and Foreign Arms & Armour
by Charles Henry Ashdown
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About this eBook
- Author
- Ashdown, Charles Henry, 1856-1922
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- U: Military science
- Subject
- Weapons -- England
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 48573
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48573
- Release Date
- March 24, 2015
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS — BRITISH AND FOREIGN ARMS AND ARMOUR
- 4.CHAPTER I — WEAPONS OF PREHISTORIC MAN — THE STONE AGE — THE BRONZE AGE
- 5.CHAPTER II — THE ASSYRIANS — THE EGYPTIANS — THE GREEKS — THE HEROIC AGE — THE HISTORIC AGE — THE ETRUSCANS
- 6.CHAPTER III — THE ROMANS — REPUBLICAN ARMOUR — THE IMPERIAL PERIOD — THE FRANKS
- 7.CHAPTER IV — SAXONS AND DANES — THE DANES
- 8.CHAPTER V — THE NORMAN PERIOD TO 1180
- 9.CHAPTER VI — THE CHAIN MAIL PERIOD, 1180-1250
- 10.CHAPTER VII — CHAIN MAIL REINFORCED, 1250-1325 — THE BANNER, PENNON, AND PENNONÇEL
- 11.CHAPTER VIII — THE CYCLAS PERIOD, 1325-1335
- 12.CHAPTER IX — THE STUDDED AND SPLINTED ARMOUR PERIOD, 1335-1360
- 13.CHAPTER X — THE CAMAIL AND JUPON PERIOD, 1360-1410
- 14.CHAPTER XI — THE SURCOATLESS PERIOD, 1410-1430
- 15.CHAPTER XII — THE TABARD PERIOD, 1430-1500
- 16.CHAPTER XIII — THE TRANSITION PERIOD, 1500-1552
- 17.CHAPTER XIV — MAXIMILIAN ARMOUR, 1525-1600
- 18.CHAPTER XV — THE HALF-ARMOUR PERIOD AFTER 1600
- 19.CHAPTER XVI — WEAPONS OF THE EARLY AND MIDDLE AGES
- 20.CHAPTER XVII — PROJECTILE-THROWING ENGINES
- 21.CHAPTER XVIII — GERMAN, ITALIAN, AND OTHER INFLUENCES UPON EUROPEAN ARMOUR
- 22.CHAPTER XIX — THE INTRODUCTION OF GUNPOWDER AND ITS INFLUENCE UPON ARMOUR
- 23.FOOTNOTES
- 24.INDEX
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