After they concord on the battlefield if there was a castle near by they would rest up and most likely sack the castle. Sometimes the peasants would revolt and ransack the castle but that was usually stopped quickly. Sometimes the peasants would win, but not often. They would do this because of unfair treatment or because taxation was extremely high. I don't under stand why they didn't stop sending food up to the castle. That would have been a better id

While these young boys were at the household they were put under the care of a schoolmaster. While there they also met other kids of there ages (MacDonald).

Before the invention of the cannon ball destroying a castle was virtually impossible. It took a lot of men and very strategic planning to sack a castle. The people that would attack a castle most powerful weapon were hunger and illnesses like typhoid. The people would use Artillery to hurl heavy stones against week points in the castle walls. They would also dig tunnels hoping that the tunnel would cal laps (MacDonald 42). The people in the castle would pour boiling water on them and keep a good supply of arrows going.

Blacksmiths were also very important to the armies because they fixed horseshoes, mend armor of people that went to war, and when they weren't doing those things I am betting that they would be making arrows.

The knights usually had great speed and amour as well as being better trained (MacDonald 40). The thing that give the knights most trouble were mass ranks of spear men and archers (MacDonald 40)

The people that served to fight for the king were knights, foot soldiers like infantry or archers. The knights were the most honored among them all as well as the most trusted. The knights were usually w

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