Medieval Warfare

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

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While these young boys were at the household they were put under the care of a schoolmaster. The people would use Artillery to hurl heavy stones against week points in the castle walls. The boy’s were sent to be a page in a noble household (MacDonald 38). The people in the castle would pour boiling water on them and keep a good supply of arrows going.

Basically medieval warfare was very brutal and people most of the time committed their whole life to war.

In making a knight they started very young and most of them would end up living by the sword and dieing by the sword.

The people that served to fight for the king were knights, foot soldiers like infantry or archers. The only disadvantage that there was to using a crossbow was how slow they were to reload (McDonald 40)

Archers were also very important. Wasting to time after the boy’s arrived they soon learned how to ride a horse as well as learning to move around easily by heavy armor (MacDonald 38).

The knights usually had great speed and amour as well as being better trained (MacDonald 40). The people that would attack a castle most powerful weapon were hunger and illnesses like typhoid. While there they also met other kids of there ages (MacDonald).

When the 14th century began, full-time professional soldiers also began. Medieval warfare was brutal indeed.

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