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This is a list of siege engines invented through history. A siege engine is a weapon used to circumvent or destroy fortifications such as defensive walls, castles, bunkers and fortified gateways. Petrary is the generic term for medieval stone throwing siege engines.
Swords can have single or double bladed edges or even edgeless. The blade can be curved or straight. Arming sword; Dagger; Estoc; Falchion; Katana; Knife; Longsword; Messer; Rapier; Sabre or saber (Most sabers belong to the renaissance period, but some sabers can be found in the late medieval period)
The Palladium Book of Weapons & Castles is a supplement which details ranged and siege weapons from the medieval and ancient periods, with descriptions of 14 real-world European castles detailed using historical sources. [1]
Medieval siege engines (1 C, 8 P) R. Roman siege engines (11 P) T. Trebuchets (2 P) Pages in category "Siege engines" The following 8 pages are in this category, out ...
Lists of battles Before 301 301–1300 1301–1600 1601–1800 1801–1900 1901–2000 2001–current Naval Sieges See also Part of a series on War (outline) History Prehistoric Ancient Post-classical castles Early modern military revolution pike and shot napoleonic warfare Late modern industrial warfare fourth-gen warfare Military Organization Command and control Defense ministry Army Navy ...
Siege engine in Assyrian relief of attack on an enemy town during the reign of Tiglath-Pileser III 743-720 BC from his palace at Kalhu (Nimrud). The earliest siege engines appear to be simple movable roofed towers used for cover to advance to the defenders' walls in conjunction with scaling ladders, depicted during the Middle Kingdom of Egypt. [2]
Siege of Shirakawa-den; Siege of Córdoba (1009–1013) Siege of Alençon; Siege of Asola (1483) Siege of Asola (1516) Siege of Baghdad (1401) Siege of Kållandsö Fort; Siege of Mirandola (1502) Siege of Montfoort; Siege of Saint-Lô (889) Siege of Sanaa (570) Siege of Siwana; Siege of Suiyang
The first definite use of artillery in the region was against the Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1396. These loud Byzantine weapons, possibly operated by the Genoese or "Franks" of Galata, forced the Turks to withdraw. [45] The Ottomans had acquired their own cannon by the siege of 1422, using "falcons", which were short but wide cannon ...