Breaching tower: men at arms storming the walls from an elevated platform, battering ram at the base, archers in the moat, shooting under cover of their pavisors. Woodcut after a 15th century carving from Sir John Froissart's Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the Adjoining Countries, from the Latter Part of the Reign of Edward II to the Coronation of Henry IV, George Routledge, London, 1868.