Translation of "Schleuderer" in English

Hannibal placed his spear-men and slingers at the front.

However the slingers surrounded and attacked it.

From medieval tapestries, we know that slingers were capable of hitting birds in flight.

There was also a cavalry force of about 600, about 300 Cretan archers, and at least 400 Marganian, Letrinian and Amphidolian slingers.

The Ancient Greeks recruited the local inhabitants of these islands, the Talaiotics, as slingers.

The bulk of their soldiers was formed by Peltasts (javeliners, slingers and archers).

And there's artillery, and artillery are archers, but, more importantly, slingers.

And a slinger is someone who has a leather pouch with two long cords attached to it, and they put a projectile, either a rock or a lead ball, inside the pouch, and they whirl it around like this and they let one of the cords go, and the effect is to send the projectile forward towards its target.

Accuracy, we know from historical records that slingers -- experienced slingers could hit and maim or even kill a target at distances of up to 200 yards.

If you go back over the history of ancient warfare, you will find time and time again that slingers were the decisive factor against infantry in one kind of battle or another.

Valerius Laevinus had about 30,000 soldiers under his command, including many cavalry, peltasts, and spearmen.

His infantry, with peltasts and archers and heavy infantry, began their march as well.

According to Livy, the consul would have covered his ship skins to resist throwing stones famous Balearic slingers.

From this period are the Balearic slingers, who used their slings as weapons of war to throw stone projectiles.

There are the Akontistai armed with javelins, the slingers Sphendonetai, the archers Toxotai, and the stone-hurlers Lithoboloi, who were certainly part of the poorest class within a city.

Some remains found in Ses Païsses, such as ceramics and iron objects from other Mediterranean civilizations, have certainly been made by the Balearic slingers (foners), which, because of their prowess with the slingshot, were recruited as soldiers by the Carthaginians during the Punic Wars (264-146 BC), hundreds of them accompanied Hannibal and his elephants across the Alps in 218 BC.

That out of this, there mutated something like our "mind", no God foresaw (otherwise, we would have declare God to be a cosmic "gun slinger", for only the extinction of the dinosaurs precipitated the emergence of the mammals and with them our emergence), that is a "miracle" of nature, about which, by our reflecting on it, we can rejoice.

The slings are here first the scientists, the so-called scientist, and then that one, who writes this article, and then the organization, which publishes the whole thing.

Mallorcan slingers are well-known for their excellent aiming skills and for using the sling as their only defensive measures during their continual battles, since they had to defend their territory against the consecutive invasions that the island suffered throughout history.

The Balearic resisted the Roman conquest for nearly 75 years, when mainland Spain (Hispania) was conquered in 206 BC. According to Livy, the consul would have covered his ship skins to resist throwing stones famous Balearic slingers.

They beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land they cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the springs of water, and felled all the good trees, until in Kir Hareseth [only] they left its stones; however the men armed with slings went about it, and struck it.