Attacking & Defending a Castle - creative writing.

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Attacking & Defending a Castle         Muhammed Almeshhedani

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Today has been a very interesting day. My men & I started to besiege the Castle of Hedge Hill that is owned by baron Jean-Pierre from Normandy. His castle was hidden between mountains and cliffs surrounding it. It was the hardest siege for us, as we couldn’t use a lot of heavy weaponry. It had four sets of walls this was hard to attack because we needed to use a lot of ammunition for the mangonel and trebuchet.

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The castle is surrounded by a moat from all directions and has a single drawbridge. We couldn’t use a siege tower or battering ram we needed a mangonel because we needed something powerful for close range as the mangonel is good at that, we needed a trebuchet because we needed something for far range to knock down the walls. The men used grappling hooks and ladders to get over the walls when they got over the moat. We had a problem knocking out the castle walls because they were very thick and this was a problem because it took ...

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