How Did Medieval Armies Defend Camp?

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