Siege Warfare: How To Takedown An ‘Impregnable’ Castle
473This is the story of castles under attack. The Medieval journey from bows and arrows to
gunpowder, with developments like trebuchet and cannon, meant engineers were always making
advancements in defence construction. By the late Middle Ages, the military importance of castles
was decreasing, as artillery power became unstoppable. But as we find out, even the siege of
Pembroke Castle during the Civil War needed the tactical genius of Oliver Cromwell, not just big
guns. The castle builders had created structures that was amazingly effective even in this new
age of shock and awe.
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