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Defending an expensive medieval castle required excellent engineering skills. Castles were the most expensive buildings in Medieval England and no owner - be they a king or a noble - could afford to lose one. ... Many castles were very well defended and for some attacking armies, the only way to defeat them was to...
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Castle defence, castle attack, defending nedieval castles against attack, overcoming defences with attacking strategies, medieval weapons, trebuchet. ... Castle Defence & Attack - Attacking & Defending Medieval Castles...
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I'm 13 years old and I need to know as much as possible (in detail) that there is to know about attacking a castle and defending a castle. How were castles built (in the way of strategy)?
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The keep was also used as a lookout and was the last refuge for defending a castle. It was usually made out of wood, but at the end of the 11th century they were made with either stone or brick. The castle also had battlements which were fighting platforms along the crest of the curtain walls.
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These towers gave an attacking army protection and high positions to fire arrows when storming a castle. Some cats were even built higher than a defending castle's towers to give attacking archers an advantage.
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Sieges also ended from treachery amongst the defending castle garrison. Attacking commanders tried to exploit truces, and use the opportunity to plant a spy within the castle walls. A defending army defector might have been someone who wanted safe conduct and a purse of gold.
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The Roman Mile Castle (see figure 2), which punctuate Hadrian’s Wall are not in fact castles but towers defending the wall which forms a much larger fortification defending a frontier.
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