Man, Moment, Machine: Alexander the Great and the Devastating Catapult
The History Channel's documentary series on inventors and their magnificent innovations continues with Man, Moment, Machine: Alexander the Great and the Devastating Catapult - an account of the titular warrior and his revolutionary weapon. The program hearkens back to 332 B.C. on the Island of Tyre - a locale with a central fortified city that struck many as utterly impenetrable. Alexander invalidated this notion, however, by slipping up to the city with his Macedonian naval fleet, building a strategic causeway, and both ...
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The History Channel's documentary series on inventors and their magnificent innovations continues with Man, Moment, Machine: Alexander the Great and the Devastating Catapult - an account of the titular warrior and his revolutionary weapon. The program hearkens back to 332 B.C. on the Island of Tyre - a locale with a central fortified city that struck many as utterly impenetrable. Alexander invalidated this notion, however, by slipping up to the city with his Macedonian naval fleet, building a strategic causeway, and both constructing and employing a weapon that would carry him ever further along his path to ruler of the known world. This documentary explains how these events forever rewrote the rules of ancient warfare. Nathan Southern, Rovi
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