Trebuchet

** __By Guillaume D.__ **
 * THE TREBUCHET **
 * The trebuchet is a French invention made in the medieval era.The trebuchet is like a catapult but has a heavy weight at one end to launch the ammunition. This was used to attack and defend castles, firing a piece of stone or metal over 100 metres. This medieval weapon is not used today but there are people still making trebuchet as a medieval reproduction. The ammunition consists of: stones, sharp wooden poles and darts, fire, casks of burning tar, burning sand ( this became trapped inside armor ), pots of Greek fire, dung, dead, sometime mutilated, bodies, disease ridden bodies, body parts, dead animals, any rotting matter and quicklime (calcium oxide) . **