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Medieval Warfare Siege warfare, open battles, weapons, armour and fighting techniques. Database of thousands of English soldiers during the later medieval period; Medieval History Database (MHDB), which includes medieval military records; Guide to researching records of medieval soldiers, from the British National Archives site
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)
This category includes battles fought during the Medieval era (roughly c. 500 to c. 1500). Medieval battles can also be found in Category:500s conflicts and every decade thereafter. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Battles of the Middle Ages .
Such expeditions were part of the growing number of sieges, disputes and campaigns throughout the 13th and 14th centuries that greatly increased the cost of warfare for medieval regimes. The relative inexpensiveness of the infantryman, combined with a shortage of manpower, provided incentives for expanding their use. [2]
The Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans Under the Command of Titus, A.D. 70, by David Roberts (1850), shows the city burning. Early thermal weapons, which used heat or burning action to destroy or damage enemy personnel, fortifications or territories, were employed in warfare during the classical and medieval periods (approximately the 8th century BC until the mid-16th century AD).
Scholarly knowledge of warfare itself relies mostly on literary evidence, which was produced in the Christian context of the late Anglo-Saxon period, [6] from the eighth to the eleventh century. [4] These literary sources are almost entirely authored by Christian clergy, and thus they do not specifically describe weapons or their use in warfare.
Similar weapons mounted on elephants were used by the Khmer Empire. [3] Onager: 353 BC Rome: The Onager was a Roman torsion powered siege engine. It is commonly depicted as a catapult with a bowl, bucket, or sling at the end of its throwing arm. Trebuchet: 4th Century BC China: Similar to the catapult, but uses a swinging arm to launch ...
15th-century culveriners. By the early 15th century, both armies had a wide variety of gunpowder weapons. [1] Large guns were developed, known as bombards (French bombardes), weighing up to 3 tonnes and firing stone balls of up to 150 kg (300 lbs), which seem to have been more prevalent among the French than among the English until 1420. [1]