History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c6.120

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c6.120

⁵³ A manjniq is a machine to make breaches in walls. Colonel Yule writes that he was informed by Professor Sprenger that the first mention of the manjniq in Muhammadan history is at the siege of Tayif by Prophet Muhammad himself in A.D. 630. Yule, Marco Polo, II, p. 125. Colonel Yule writes an elaborate note on military engines that were used in the Middle Ages, II, note 3, pp. 121—28.

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