What a castle siege is How people prepared for a siege ... Use this drawing of a medieval trebuchet to help you. Image caption, Can you draw a trebuchet and label the different parts?

The attraction, called Dover Castle Under Siege, will also see the castle's northern defences opened to the public for the first time, while children have the chance to experience a siege-themed ...

Carlisle Castle is a medieval fortress established ... Carlisle became the last British castle to undergo a siege. In December 1745, government forces under the command of the Duke of Cumberland ...

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Dover Castle on the Kent coast is opening a major visitor experience in time for the school summer break. After 800 hours of work by English Heritage, a digital model of the historic castle as it ...

Professor Richard Holmes, a British military historian featured in the NOVA film "Medieval Siege," talks here about everyday life in a medieval English castle, giving a sense of how lords and ...

During medieval sieges, this destruction machine crushed castle walls. Using trial and error, medieval engineers adjusted the trebuchet to make sure its missile hit the castle wall—and destroyed it.