War in The Medieval Times

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War in The Medieval Times
By Seva Alessandro
ICT Year 2 Class 2007-8
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Introduction

• During the Middle Ages, people had to be
  prepared at any time. Kings and nobles built
  castles to protect themselves from their enemies,
  knights and foot soldiers trained for war, and
  armies fought battles at home and abroad.

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Contents
Hello, Im Bob. Click on the subject you want to
know more about.
Becoming a Knight
Kights in battle
Foot Soldiers
Attacking a castle
defending a castle
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Pictures
So you wanted to know more about Knights in
battle Knights fought on horseback using
swords, lances (long poles with blade at the
end), axes and vicious weapons called morning
stars. Each knight had their own symbol, called
a coat of arms, to show from which family they
belong to. Knights were from rich and noble
families. They were heavily protected. They had
shields, Chain mail, a metal helmet and
protection on their legs.
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Its me again remember me You wanted to know more
about Foot soldiers Foot soldiers were normal
soldiers from poorer families. They needed money
so they sent their children to war, to fight as
foot soldiers. They werent as heavily protected
and experienced as knights. But not all foot
soldiers were from poor families. Some foot
soldiers were dismounted knights who fought on
foot, not on horse.
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So you wanted to wanted to know more about How
do you become a knight Becoming a knight Only
boys from noble families could become knights.
First, a boy worked as a page in a castle,
learning how to ride and fight. Then, he became a
squire and looked after a knight. When the squire
had proved that he was a brave warrior, he was
knighted by a king or a noble.
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You wanted to know more about Defending a
castle A castle could be attacked by foreign
invaders or by an enemy lord. Castles were
designed to be extremely strong and easy to
defend. Soldiers defending a castle used
different weapons like throwing rocks from the
walls and shooting flaming arrows or boiling tar.
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You wanted to know more about Attacking a
castle The soldiers which were attacking had
rams, Catapults and Trebuchets and siege towers
and other ways of attaching a castle. Siege
towers were pushed to the wall and then the
soldiers Jumped onto the walls and killed the
defenders. The kings never fought alongside his
soldiers only sometimes when they were attacking
a castle.
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Pictures
Chain mail
Coat of arms
helmet
Morning star
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