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The War Wagon is a 1967 American Western heist film directed by Burt Kennedy and starring John Wayne and Kirk Douglas. Released by Universal Pictures , it was produced by Marvin Schwartz and adapted by Clair Huffaker from his own novel.
A medieval European war wagon was developed in the Hussite Wars around 1420 by Hussite forces led by the Czech general Jan Žižka rebelling in Bohemia. [4] [5] It was a heavy wagon given protective sides with firing slits and heavy firepower from either a cannon or a force of hand-gunners, archers and crossbowmen, supported by infantry using ...
War wagon is an ancient Chinese, medieval Korean, or Czech siege weapon. War wagon may also refer to: The War Wagon, a 1967 western film starring John Wayne and Kirk Douglas; Hwacha, a Korean weapon which employs gunpowder and projectiles; A carroccio or carro della guerra, a four-wheeled war altar used by the medieval republics of Italy
The Mountain Meadows Massacre (September 7–11, 1857) was a series of attacks during the Utah War that resulted in the mass murder of at least 120 members of the Baker–Fancher wagon train.
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Counterattacks were done by cold weapons-armed infantry and cavalry charges outside of the wagon forts. [5] The first mobile use of war wagons and firearms took place during the Hussite breakthrough of Catholic encirclement at Vladař Hill in November 1421 at the Battle of Žlutice . The wagons and firearms were used on the move, at this point ...
The Hussite wagenburg. A wagon fort, wagon fortress, wagenburg or corral, [1] often referred to as circling the wagons, is a temporary fortification made of wagons arranged into a rectangle, circle, or other shape and possibly joined with each other to produce an improvised military camp.