shield wall in a sentence
Examples
- The battle, little more than a great clash of shield walls, resulted in a victory for Alfred.
- The thickness of a shield wall could, in extreme cases, be as much as ( e . g.
- He could not hold the ford so he retreated to his camp and made a shield wall around it.
- The police proceeded in clearing the Atlantic-Railton-Mayall area by pushing the rioters down the road, forming deep shield walls.
- The Bayeux Tapestry's depiction of Norman cavalry charging an Anglo-Saxon shield wall during the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
- In other cases, for example at Liebenzell Castle, the bergfried was built in the centre of the shield wall.
- Roman legions used an extreme type of shield wall called a testudo formation that covered front, sides and above.
- The depicted infantry are shown formed in a shield wall, a tactic employed by the Norwegian-backed forces at Stamford Bridge.
- Although the feigned flights did not break the lines, they probably thinned out the housecarls in the English shield wall.
- The Roman scutum was a large shield designed to fit with others to form a shield wall, though not overlap.