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What was the device used to connect two ships together in ancient Rome?
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∙ 11y ago
The Romans invented the Harpax (crow), a gangplank with a beak on the far end, which, when dropped on an opposing ship's deck, locked both together while the Roman infantry ran over it to board the enemy ship.
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∙ 11y agoThe Romans used the corvus, a boarding bridge. Later on they used the harpax, a newer version of the corvus.
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