- 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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plain and
round saddles. The
artillery used the
arradah (ballista), the
manjaniq (mangonel), and the
dabbabah or
kabsh (battering ram). The
heavy engines...
- 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...
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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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siege without using standard military equipments of
siege warfare such as
manjaniq or
ballistas (aradah or irada). He did not even
resort to mines, wooden...
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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...
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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...
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sources as
labdarea (lambda-shaped machines) and as "Turkish trebuchets" (
manjanīq turkī) by
Mardi ibn Ali al-Tarsusi and the
Templar of Tyre. Mao Yuanyi...
