Battering Ram

The ram is a siege engine that originated in ancient times. It was used to break through the entrance gates of fortresses and castles, or of walls when they were not particularly thick, by drilling of the breach.


This weapon was invented in Greece in the ninth and eighth centuries BC, and  it was used for the first time by the Spartans.

After many battles lost due to strongholds impossible to break down, a Spartan general found after several attempts an almost foolproof method to solve this problem.

In its simplest form, a battering ram is just a large, heavy part of the trunk or a large branch of a tree carried by several people and propelled with force against an obstacle; the ram would be sufficient to damage the target if the log were massive enough and/or it was moved quickly enough. Later rams encased the log in an arrow-proof, fire-resistant canopy mounted on wheels. Inside the canopy, the log was swung from suspensory chains or ropes.

Battering rams still have a use in modern times. SWAT teams and other police forces often employ small, one-man or two-man metal rams for forcing open locked portals or effecting a door breaching.

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The story is not true, the inventor of the battering ram are the Assyrians!

 

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