During a Roman siege, which outcome resulted because miners collapsed enemy walls?

💡 Explanation

Subsidence (ground settlement) causes the loss of arch keystone support because the undermining collapses adjacent support; therefore structural integrity fails rather than increasing in tensile strength, improving defenses, or influencing trajectory.

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