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.Someone who'd defend Sota.Paddy saw the need as urgent.He had no authority over the forces at themilitary reservation, and he needed the rifle companies and artillery sent asquickly as possible to man the ambush under construction.Meanwhile, ifartillery showed up outside the palace gates, things would get desperate.Andif Eldred was returned to the throne, he'd surely execute the rebels.Paddy had already attached the royal pages as his own.Now he sent two of themrunning off to Lord Brookins' room.Between himself and the king's secretary,they might interest an acceptable royal in-law to rule as regent.* * *By that time, of course, Carlos had found an unoccupied room from which tonotify Luis and the others of what had happened.Chapter 35The Battle of KatoEncyclopedia of the Holy ChurchThe Kato stockade is one of the finest timber forts known, as well as one ofthe larger, being 150 by 130 yards in size.A blockhouse stands at eachPage 130 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlcorner, and one midway of each wall, and from these, bowmen can shoot atattackers along the base of the walls.Thatched roofs are not allowed.Instead, all buildings are roofed by shakes, rendering them less susceptibleto being set alight by fire arrows.The shakes used to roof the primarybuildings are split from black walnut or white oak, because those species areslow to decay, yet readily split.Shakes for outbuildings aremost often silver maple, green ash or basswood.Although they decay readily,they are even easier to split, and locally more abundant.The individual timbers of this stockade are of either white oak, burr oak, orblack walnut.These species are relatively durable when set in the ground.They can be left in place several times as long as timbers of other localspecies before needing to be replaced.To improve that durability, thetrenches in which the cants are set are then packed with coarse sand and smallcobbles, to improve drainage.Timbers are transported in winter, on large sleighs for distances as great as25 miles, then sawn by a water-driven circular saw into cants 15 inches on aside and 25 feet long, all sapwood being removed in the process.After squaring, the timbers are set 10 feet into the ground.While being set,every third and fourth timber has 3 feet cut from the top, to provide an"archery notch" through which a defender can shoot at attackers.Happily, the Kato stockade has never been attacked.It is regrettable though,and to the Church embarrassing, that such fortifications are needed.For theChurch has been charged by God to improve human justice, tolerance andharmony, and to increase unqualified love and compassion, so thatfortifications are no longer needed, and become curiosities for futuregenerations to read about.From the back of his favorite horse, Mazeppa examined the stockade.It wasbuilt on high ground above the river.He'd ridden around it on three sides,and swum his horse across the river to examine the fourth side from there.Hisbraves had occupied the nearby town, well-sheltered from further storms, butit would not suit them to stay there long with nothing to do.Several war parties had not yet arrived.Meanwhile Mazeppa needed to decide:(1) to attack, or (2) to bypass Kato, and proceed downriver to theMisasip, and the King's Town.But if he allowed himself to be deflected byKato's wooden walls, what would his braves think when they saw Hasty's highstone walls? While to destroy Kato and its people would add to theirconfidence.They were willing-eager-but it would not do to squander them, sohe looked for vulnerabilities-means to victory at the least cost of lives.From raids in the past, his people had learned ways of attacking stockades.Thus he'd sent parties to bring in wagons and carts loaded with hay, to bepushed against the stockade and set afire.Meanwhile, in town, doors had beentaken from doorways, and fitted with scavenged ropes and straps to make largeshields.Behind these, braves couldapproach the walls sheltered from Sotan bowmen.The scouts he'd sent that spring had seen from inside what could not be seenfrom outside.Large water containers called "cisterns" had been built partlybelow ground, and walled with cemented stone.The dirt-eaters kept them filledwith water.And the walls had walkways from which bowmen could shoot.Also, onthe walkways, they could strike with their long knives-their "sabers"-atattackers climbing over the walls.Inside the enclosure were many houses, somebacked up against the walls, others standing free.In these the dirt-eaterscould take shelter from arrows shot over the walls.But except for the cisterns, all of this was built of wood, and it had notrained for several days.As for food.no doubt most of the townspeople had fled days past, warned bythe treacherous Jorval.And he could hear the bawling, bleating, barking andPage 131 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlsquealing of animals inside.His braves would grow restless long before thedefenders could be starved out.The fort's most promising vulnerabilty, it seemed to him, was itsflammability.So.He'd prepare several modes of attack, feel the defendersout, examine their reactions, then decide what to do next.His options shrank, however, when the parties sent out to bring wagons andcarts failed to find any [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.Someone who'd defend Sota.Paddy saw the need as urgent.He had no authority over the forces at themilitary reservation, and he needed the rifle companies and artillery sent asquickly as possible to man the ambush under construction.Meanwhile, ifartillery showed up outside the palace gates, things would get desperate.Andif Eldred was returned to the throne, he'd surely execute the rebels.Paddy had already attached the royal pages as his own.Now he sent two of themrunning off to Lord Brookins' room.Between himself and the king's secretary,they might interest an acceptable royal in-law to rule as regent.* * *By that time, of course, Carlos had found an unoccupied room from which tonotify Luis and the others of what had happened.Chapter 35The Battle of KatoEncyclopedia of the Holy ChurchThe Kato stockade is one of the finest timber forts known, as well as one ofthe larger, being 150 by 130 yards in size.A blockhouse stands at eachPage 130 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlcorner, and one midway of each wall, and from these, bowmen can shoot atattackers along the base of the walls.Thatched roofs are not allowed.Instead, all buildings are roofed by shakes, rendering them less susceptibleto being set alight by fire arrows.The shakes used to roof the primarybuildings are split from black walnut or white oak, because those species areslow to decay, yet readily split.Shakes for outbuildings aremost often silver maple, green ash or basswood.Although they decay readily,they are even easier to split, and locally more abundant.The individual timbers of this stockade are of either white oak, burr oak, orblack walnut.These species are relatively durable when set in the ground.They can be left in place several times as long as timbers of other localspecies before needing to be replaced.To improve that durability, thetrenches in which the cants are set are then packed with coarse sand and smallcobbles, to improve drainage.Timbers are transported in winter, on large sleighs for distances as great as25 miles, then sawn by a water-driven circular saw into cants 15 inches on aside and 25 feet long, all sapwood being removed in the process.After squaring, the timbers are set 10 feet into the ground.While being set,every third and fourth timber has 3 feet cut from the top, to provide an"archery notch" through which a defender can shoot at attackers.Happily, the Kato stockade has never been attacked.It is regrettable though,and to the Church embarrassing, that such fortifications are needed.For theChurch has been charged by God to improve human justice, tolerance andharmony, and to increase unqualified love and compassion, so thatfortifications are no longer needed, and become curiosities for futuregenerations to read about.From the back of his favorite horse, Mazeppa examined the stockade.It wasbuilt on high ground above the river.He'd ridden around it on three sides,and swum his horse across the river to examine the fourth side from there.Hisbraves had occupied the nearby town, well-sheltered from further storms, butit would not suit them to stay there long with nothing to do.Several war parties had not yet arrived.Meanwhile Mazeppa needed to decide:(1) to attack, or (2) to bypass Kato, and proceed downriver to theMisasip, and the King's Town.But if he allowed himself to be deflected byKato's wooden walls, what would his braves think when they saw Hasty's highstone walls? While to destroy Kato and its people would add to theirconfidence.They were willing-eager-but it would not do to squander them, sohe looked for vulnerabilities-means to victory at the least cost of lives.From raids in the past, his people had learned ways of attacking stockades.Thus he'd sent parties to bring in wagons and carts loaded with hay, to bepushed against the stockade and set afire.Meanwhile, in town, doors had beentaken from doorways, and fitted with scavenged ropes and straps to make largeshields.Behind these, braves couldapproach the walls sheltered from Sotan bowmen.The scouts he'd sent that spring had seen from inside what could not be seenfrom outside.Large water containers called "cisterns" had been built partlybelow ground, and walled with cemented stone.The dirt-eaters kept them filledwith water.And the walls had walkways from which bowmen could shoot.Also, onthe walkways, they could strike with their long knives-their "sabers"-atattackers climbing over the walls.Inside the enclosure were many houses, somebacked up against the walls, others standing free.In these the dirt-eaterscould take shelter from arrows shot over the walls.But except for the cisterns, all of this was built of wood, and it had notrained for several days.As for food.no doubt most of the townspeople had fled days past, warned bythe treacherous Jorval.And he could hear the bawling, bleating, barking andPage 131 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlsquealing of animals inside.His braves would grow restless long before thedefenders could be starved out.The fort's most promising vulnerabilty, it seemed to him, was itsflammability.So.He'd prepare several modes of attack, feel the defendersout, examine their reactions, then decide what to do next.His options shrank, however, when the parties sent out to bring wagons andcarts failed to find any [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]