Medieval tactics were essential for an attack or siege of a castle. Many tactics and strategies helped develop much-improved version of an attacking artifact, like weapons and sieging machinery. The knights of Medieval England which were the cavalry, improved as the years went by, but never actually had any tactics or strategies. The usual knight would just go out there and fight. The knights were the counter offensive against a small siege, but they were ineffective against a large siege of a castle. A siege was very essential for medieval warfare. Siege was like the most important part of an attack; that is if you're attacking a castle.

As you know no one inhabited New England back then in the Medieval Ages, so many nations were competing for it. One of them was Rome. Rome inhabited New England first, and as being the first settlers they left some of their customs, which among them was the key to war. The Roman legion composed of a huge amount of infantry and some cavalry was an important factor in Roman War. However, if Rome and England were compared then the cavalry of Rome later

developed into the Knight. The well trained infantry of Rome's legion for attackin

help of wheels, this was called a belfry . The belfry was built on-site while the attacking army was camping outside the castle, and then once the belfry was ready it was pushed forward to the wall once the moat, or ditch had been filled in. These belfries contained a number of platforms connected by ladders and filled with soldiers. The soldiers would propel the tower, and then once it was in place they would go up the stairs and begin to fight. The belfry had a mini-drawbridge (which was used to cover the gap between the tower and the wall. At the top the front of the mini-tower was covered with wet-hides so it won't catch on fire. The back part of the top of the tower was left open. Upon reaching the top of the wall; the mini-drawbridge would be lowered to reach the top of the wall; the soldiers on the top platform jumped onto the other side and fight the soldiers. Then the soldiers on the bottom platform went fast up the stairs to the top platform where they could join the fight and start killing. If that technique was successful then the soldiers that were alive went over to the gate and lower the bridge or raise the gates. Some belfries had a small battering ram at the bottom that proved to be a waste of effort. It was so because if the attackers were going at a wall, the wall must have been like 10 ft. thick, and the small battering ram must have had no effect on the wall but some small cracks.

The Mangonel was a machine that looked like a long wooden arm with a

Tearing a passage through the wall meant tearing it down by making a hole in it. This job was left for the battering ram. The battering ram was like a shed with an iron-shod balk of timber suspended by iron chains from the ceiling, and just being swung back and forth. When walls became thicker, this method was beginning to be used less and less because of its ineffectiveness. The defender's only way to stop it was to get the operators. They did so by throwing stones or boiling on the battering ram hoping it would reach the operators. But a method of protection against the boiling water and stones was soon developed. This was called the tortoise or testudo , which covered the ram and the workers. Another kind of battering ram was the bore , which instead of having a blunt end for breaking through doors and walls and being made out of wood, this was a strong metallic pole with a sharp end which loosened the stones in the wall.

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