The club was the first offensive weapon. Then followed the mace, battle-axe, pike, spear, javelin, sword and dagger, hows and arrows, Pliny ascribes the invention of the sling to the Phoenicians.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 46, 4 December 1939, Page 3
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