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- More recent research discovered, however, that it is the remains of a medieval siegeworks.
- The soldiers, who came from the 12th Regiment of Infantry and 10th Regiment of Cavalry, constructed extensive siegeworks around the town.
- He invested and took Echinus, using extensive siegeworks, having beaten back an attempt to relieve the town by the Aetolian " strategos"
- They had under their command working parties of two or three battalions of infantry, two or three thousand men, who knew nothing in the art of siegeworks.
- The local historian Stuart Harris, writing in the 1990s, dismissed the assertion that these mounds were siegeworks rather than natural hillocks, stating that the belief was a " spurious'tradition'".
- Afterwards, in a contemptuous reprisal for 25 days of hunger and of laboring over the siegeworks required to breach Avaricum's defenses, the Romans slaughtered nearly the entire population of some 40, 000 leaving only about 800 alive.