Meet the Trebuchet, the Castle-crushing Catapult of the Middle Ages
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Meet the Trebuchet, the Castle-crushing Catapult of the Middle Ages
Before the advent of gunpowder, enemy combatants used a powerful siege weapon called a trebuchet to forcefully launch projectiles - sometimes a large stone, a decapitated human head or a dead horse - at intended targets.
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