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How Did Medieval Armies Defend Camp?

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How Did Medieval Armies Defend Camp? In the Medieval period besieging armies used a wide variety of siege engines including: scaling ladders; battering rams; siege towers and various types of catapults such as the mangonel, onager, ballista, and trebuchet. How did medieval armies fight? The most bitter hand-to-hand fighting was done by ‘men-at-arms’. These were

How Did Medieval Armies Defend Their Camps From Ambush?

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How Did Medieval Armies Defend Their Camps From Ambush? Not everyone had a tent, sometimes lower class soldiers just slept on the ground, but if they expected to stay more than a night they would build some sort of shelter. Camps that were constructed for sieges almost always had fortifications, because they were often raided.