Were trebuchets built in situ and then abandoned after a siege?
Early trebuchets were built on site. As they grew increasingly large and powerful, wagons carrying sections of prefabricated trebuchets were brought to a siege and assembled in situ.
A trebuchet was a medieval siege weapon, operated using a counterweight to propel a long arm, attached to a sling, which could hurl a projectile with great force and accuracy at enemy fortifications.
Invented in China in around the fourth century BC, by the 12thcentury, improved counterweight trebuchets were in use in Europe.
Historian Michael S. Fulton offered the best examination of the machines in his book Development Of Prefabricated Artillery During The Crusades (2015).
He concluded that while smaller weapons were built on site, large trebuchets were not only assembled but also disassembled afterwards for transport so they could be reused at later sieges.
Perhaps the largest and most famous trebuchet of them all was Edward I’s Warwolf.
In 1304, he ordered his engineers to build this great piece of artillery for the siege of Stirling Castle in Scotland.
Assembled by five master carpenters and 49 labourers, the Warwolf could hurl rocks weighing as much as 300lb.
Early trebuchets were built on site. As they grew larger and more powerful, wagons carried prefabricated section to a siege and assembled them in situ
The Scots, watching the Warwolf being assembled, offered to surrender, but Edward reputedly refused to let anyone leave the castle until the great engine had bombarded it, which it did, successfully levelling the curtain wall.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14257293/ANSWERS-CORRESPONDENTS-trebuchets-built-situ-abandoned-siege.html
Israeli soldiers launching fireballs into Lebanon using a medieval-style trebuchet
IDF soldiers firing the trebuchet right next to the Lebanese border as it fires the flaming projectile over the border, right into Lebanese plantations
'The area on the Lebanese border is characterized by boulders, thickets, and dense thorn vegetation, which poses a challenge to the IDF troops deployed in defense,' the IDF added as a reason for launching the fireballs
A traditional trebuchet
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