Unit 2: Stone Fortifications Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. King of Wessex who established thirty-three burgs for defence (pg. 79)
  2. 5. Formal organs of imperial enrolment that ceased in fifth century (pg. 67)
  3. 9. Soldiers fighting on foot, focus of Vegetius' military handbook (pg. 89)
  4. 10. Urban force that defended approximately 100 walled towns in Gaul (pg. 67)
  5. 14. Weapon with hook capable of pulling a cavalryman off his horse (pg. 97)
  6. 16. Horsemen trained to dismount and fight on foot as pikemen (pg. 68)
  7. 17. Medieval siege engine with counterweight technology from twelfth century onwards (pg. 91)
  8. 21. Follower who had been honoured with status and owed service to magnates (pg. 74)
  9. 22. Standard Byzantine warship with 2 banks of rowers and 100 men (pg. 81)
  10. 23. Paid troops Alfred established in each of thirty-three burgs (pg. 79)
  11. 24. Roman victory over Attila when Huns withdrew after siege of Orléans (pg. 67)
  12. 25. Fortified town no more than twenty miles from another (pg. 80)
Down
  1. 1. Important lay and clerical leader with personal armed followings (pg. 79)
  2. 2. Roman military writer whose handbook focused on infantry training (pg. 89)
  3. 4. Weapon used by Swiss forces and Hussite army supporters (pg. 102)
  4. 5. Frankish king crowned emperor in 800 who could muster 150,000 men (pg. 74)
  5. 6. Solid formation where Harold deployed militiamen at Hastings (pg. 85)
  6. 7. Method to raise funds that only central authority could provide (pg. 107)
  7. 8. One-armed catapult weighing two tons that could hurl eight-pound stones (pg. 75)
  8. 11. William's nine-hour victory using firepower and feigned retreats (pg. 84-86)
  9. 12. General population in arms providing manpower for local defence (pg. 79)
  10. 13. Otto the Great's spectacular victory over Magyars near Augsburg (pg. 88)
  11. 15. Crew keeping their weapon in operation day and night during siege (pg. 91)
  12. 18. Mounted soldier trained to fight on foot, institutionalized by sixteenth century (pg. 68)
  13. 19. Swiss soldiers prepared by training to face cavalry charge (pg. 102)
  14. 20. Yearly payment imposed to save region and make ruler lord (pg. 74)