Comenius’ The Visible World In Pictures – read in English

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besieging a city that means attacking a city so people can't get out of it until it gives up firstly the city is summoned by a trumpeter here is he blows his

trumpet and the generals of the attacking army try and persuade the city to yield in other words to open the gates and let the army of the enemy in if it refuses to give up then it is

assaulted by the procedures those are the people the army around the outside that are trying to get in there are the procedures and the city itself is besieged and the city is taken by storm

either by climbing over the walls here with ladders using scaling ladders special letters that can be lifted up against the walls or by breaking them down with battering engines as you can

see here or by demolishing the walls with great guns which you can see here or by casting grenades here out of a mortar which is this small cannon you can see here and the people who fire

these guns are called engineers and they hide behind these special fortifications also the city walls can be overthrown with mines so the miners here dig under the ground and they undermine the walls

those people that are besieged they defend themselves from the walls using fire and stones boiling oil and other things and sometimes they break out in force the army comes out from the walls

to attack the besiegers if the city is taken by storm then it is plundered that means that the army that attacks goes in and steals everything destroys it and sometimes even razed to the ground they

knocked the whole city down flat this is a shot from the Roman siege of Carthage based on the actual historical events here the defenders the attackers attack the walls and the defenders

defend with arrows and here the Roman ballistas is the ladders for scaling the walls and use the siege engines so the scaling ladders brought forward by the Roman legions and the city is under

siege and the defenders of course throw things over the walls boiling oil with an inset late too and various things to protect their city

the city of Carthage after the Romans conquered it was razed to the ground stone by stone it was plundered all its wealth was taken away like the gold and the silver and all the inhabitants were

sold as slaves and the city was dismantled and knocked down flat