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This is the only man known to have died in a medieval siege of a medium-sized boulder falling on him. Trebuchets were used for a variety of purposes in siege w
by mapt 1mo ago
This is the only man known to have died in a medieval siege of a medium-sized boulder falling on him.
Trebuchets were used for a variety of purposes in siege warfare, from (uniquely) breaching walls with large boulders to (less uniquely) setting things on fire to (probably) suppressing massed formations of archers with smaller shot. But smaller shot would not leave a characteristic trebuchet injury, it would leave a generic blunt-force trauma injury.
- mr_toad 1mo agoIn some cases they’d hurl dead cattle, people’s heads, and flaming projectiles over the walls to damage morale and potentially damage infrastructure.
- jamiek88 1mo agoAnd to spread disease.
- WalterBright 1mo ago> they’d hurl dead cattle I learned that from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
- mapt 1mo agoI would not want to hurl dead cattle ("Valuable beef primal cuts") across the walls onto a starving populace.