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BESEIGING CASTLES AND TOWNS :

BESEIGING CASTLES AND TOWNS : . Old Sarum, Salisbury. ATTACK AND DEFENCE. AN ARMY PREPARES TO BESEIGE A CASTLE. What items can you see being loaded on to the wagons?. AN ARMY CAMP DURING A SEIGE.

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BESEIGING CASTLES AND TOWNS :

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  1. BESEIGING CASTLES AND TOWNS: Old Sarum, Salisbury.

  2. ATTACK AND DEFENCE

  3. AN ARMY PREPARES TO BESEIGE A CASTLE What items can you see being loaded on to the wagons?

  4. AN ARMY CAMP DURING A SEIGE Note the baggage wagons are on the outside. The foot-soldiers tents are in the inside ring, and the knights tents are in the centre. Notice the guarded gate on the left, and the bar and gambling tables on the right.

  5. THE SIEGE What are the attackers doing? Notice the siege tower to the left.What have the archers set up in the centre to protect themselves? What are the defenders doing?

  6. COUNTER- ATTACK: As the siege went on, the defenders would become hungry and they often became ill. They would often make surprise attacks from the castles, called sorties. Notice the trebuchet, a large-machine for throwing rocks at walls.

  7. HOW TO BESIEGE A TOWN Here are three methods of breaking into a medieval castle or town: tunneling, using mangonels and trebuchets, and using siege towers. What were they designed to do?

  8. TUNNELING UNDER CASTLE WALLS

  9. SIEGE WEAPONS: DIFFERENT TYPES OF MANGONEL Left: This machine is used for hurling large arrows aver the walls of castles. Right: A similar device for throwing huge rocks. The rock would be held in the swing at the top

  10. THEBATTERING RAM How are the defenders protecting themselves? The ram Housing provides protection

  11. STORMING A CASTLE, 14th century AD EARLY CANNON: 14TH AND 15TH CENTURIES A.D. A bombard, from around 1330 AD. Mid- 15th century, with an early type of elevating gear. Late 15th century, cannon mounted on a wheeled carriage.

  12. SIEGE TOWERS AND CANNON Siege Towers Drawbridge to allow attackers to reach walls Crossbowmen Early cannon

  13. SCALING LADDERS

  14. WOODEN HOARDINGS IN USE

  15. MACHICOLATIONS: Theseholes in the floors of the towers and were used to drop items onto attacking troops below. What sort of materials would be used?

  16. MACHICOLATIONS IN USE:

  17. ‘ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH DEAR FRIENDS’ A breach was a gap in the castle walls made by the attackers. The attackers then rushed into the breach to try to take the castle.

  18. LOOTING AND PILLAGING

  19. PILLAGE AND MURDER WHY WERE ARMIES SO RUTHLESS TOWARDS PEASANTS?

  20. ARMIES ON THE MARCH Soldiers attacking a merchant’s house.

  21. HENRY VIII’S CASTLES – Deal Castle, Kent. Henry’s castles were really forts and were used to protect England from invasion by the French.

  22. 16th CENTURY CASTLES Walmer Castle, Kent A new type of castle for a new age. How does the design of this castle differ from ordinary castles? Why?

  23. CROSS-SECTION OF DEAL CASTLE In what ways is this castle designed differently from a normal castle? Why?

  24. NEW CASTLES FOR A NEW AGE Notice, the gun-ports (openings in the castle walls) at Walmer Castle [left] and at Pendennis Castle in Cornwall [below].

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