1. Seige the Castle

2. Definition
A siege occurs when an attacker encounters a city or fortress that cannot be easily taken and refuses to surrender

3. Residents of the Castle
Women and children headed for the keep
Men prepared to defend their fortress
How?

4. On the Defense Water and oil boiled in vats Battlements
pour on attackers climbing the outerwalls
Battlements
provided protection for archers using longbows and crossbows

5. On the Defense The Entrance The most vulnerable part of castle?
Drawbridge would be pulled up flush with the rest of the outerwall
The portcullis was lowered to form another barrier

6. On the Defense
Guards were stationed at the guardhouse with longbows to ward off invaders.

7. On the Offense Attacking soldiers climbed the outerwalls
Tunneled under the walls
Shot at guards on the bailey with longbows and crossbows.

8. On the Offense
Catapults
Ballistas
Battering Rams

9. Captured!
Nobles were often captured rather than killed
Why?