Castles

On a castle, corners are a liability, allowing the enemy to approach more safely than with a head-on attack against one of the walls. The turrets were built to protect the corners of a castle.

i need to know who lived in the blarney castle and what was it used for ? i used to live

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From about 300 B.C until about the end of the medieval era when cannons became so effective that siege towers were obsolete. If you're asking the question "In what situation was the siege tower used" then the answer is when the walls were too thick to shoot down with heavy artillery or when the army's budget was so low that thy couldn't afford cannon.

There were several defensive measures in ancient castles. Some were standard to any castle, but others were more unique.

The most obvious of these is probably to have people stand on the walls and throw things at attackers. And by things, I mean pretty much anything they could get their hands on that might hurt someone it landed on and was not already being used to fortify the gate: arrows, javelins, rocks, pots, spare metals, a chunk of of the wall that had been knocked off, etc. Sometimes they would use things like heated oil or tar if they had it available to burn attackers or try to set battering rams on fire (with the aid of a flaming arrow or some other incendiary). Other heated materials were also used in castle defense, such as boiling water or hot sand or animal fat. These heated materials could be very effective, sometimes even more so than things like rocks because while a smallish rock might just bounce off an enemy's armor, the hot sand or boiling water can sneak in through small cracks and cause severe burns. Some castles had arrow holes built into the wall, from where archers could shoot or other people could throw whatever they had on hand or pour hot materials onto passing attackers. The trick was making these arrow holes big enough to shoot from and placing them in locations they could be effective but still enabling them to afford some protection to the person using it. For example some castles had intricate gates where the actual gate was built at a point inward from the perimeter of the wall and the walls on either side of this alley leading to the gate would house arrow holes that were at angles somewhat harder to hit from outside the castle, but the defenders inside could use them to shoot at attackers entering the alley. These arrow holes also sometimes had protective wooden covers the defender could push out of the way while shooting (i.e. with his shoulder) and then the cover would fall back into place when the defender retreated back into the wall. Many castles also had towers built into them from which defenders could fire projectiles, often with arrow holes all over them. Some castles also had defensive catapults or ballistas (giant mechanical crossbows) within them, so while the enemy catapults shot stuff into the castles, the defenders would try to shoot them back. (They usually had their own ammunition stockpiles, at least at the start of a siege, but when that runs low you start looking around for anything else you can use. And if an enemy catapult projectile hit a stone building or part of a wall and turned it into rubble, that too becomes ammunition). There we also some incidents of "biological warfare". Although these were usually reports of besieging armies using catapults to hurl corpses into a castle or city hoping to cause an outbreak of disease, the defenders in castles that had catapults of their own could load them with these same corpses or simply the corpses of fallen defenders and hurl them back onto the enemy army.

All of this would take place for as long as the castle was under siege and there were still enemies to shoot stuff at and the defenders had any ammunition left and it was "safe" to get to these defensive positions, or indeed if the person in that position got stuck there because the enemy had cut off his ability to retreat to a more "safe" location. Safe is of course a very relative word when you are talking about warfare, and during a siege there really was no completely safe place if the castle was breached, or really even before then because some catapult's projectile or enemy arrow might still find you. Although some castles did have access to underground tunnels or similar very secure places where the defenders might hide women and children and/or VIPs such as royalty during a siege, but some had no such secure places and while those would most likely be safe during the siege, once the outer defenses were breached it was usually only a matter of time before these places were breached as well.

Once the walls (or the gate) were breached and the enemy began flooding into the castle itself, it was time for the front linesmen to take up swords or spears or whatever weapon you could find and meet the enemy head on. Any archers still alive could still fire at the attackers within the walls too, of course.

Of course, that's all assuming whoever was in command of the castle did not surrender once the outer perimeter of the castle was breached or at some point before that (assuming any surrender given was actually accepted and the attack stopped). Sometimes castles were surrendered just at the sight of an enemy army on the horizon, other times the siege raged until every defender (or any other occupant) was killed. It was sometimes not just the knights who fought. Often times these sieges, for whatever reason they may have started, became a pure battle of survival and any occupant in the castle, whether noble or peasant, would be forced to try to defend his or her life to the best of his or her ability.

Plenty, for example it was first built by the Anglo Saxons, at least, the earthworks were. They were reconstructed after the conquest by King William, not personally you understand. It was completed for occupation in only two weeks.

Well They had guads around every where and when he attackers came they lifted the draw bridge and fireed rocks and things out and bsaically that is why it is still standing now!

No, all castles are different in some way. These are the different types of castles: * Motte and Bailey castles (made out of wood) * Stone keep castles or just stone castles (made out of stone) * Concentric castles (also made out of stone)

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Windsor Castle has been the main residence for the British royalty since it was complete in 1086 CE. The castle also houses the Royal Archives, the Royal Library and the Royal Photograph Collection.

The Motte and Bailey was quick to construct, but was generally made of wood. This made it extremely vulnerable to fire-flinging attacks - and also quite temporary, too. Generally, they were built of sandstone or limestone, but the whole castle wouldn't have been made of stone - it was expensive and unwieldy. Costs would have been cut by using wooden roofs, partitions, and supports.

Yes most castles are named in some way, often by the name of the nearest town or geographical feature.

they stopped being made as the weapons got more advanced also they were not very comfortable to live in.

Harlech Castle, located in Harlech, Gwynedd, Wales.

Windsor Castle (Admission prices when the State Apartments are closed). Adult £8.50. Over 60/Student (with valid ID) £7.50

warwick castle has 300 dungeons

There are quite a few simerlarities between a Motte and Bailey castle and a Stone Keep castle: * Both types of castles have an curtain wall running around the side of the castle * They both also have a keep in the middle of the castle * In the area between the keep and the curtain wall is a few buildings like stables of guardrooms.

Leads castle was built by Robert De Crevecoeur

No one actually lives in the Dover Castle at this time. It is presently the home of a museum to honor the Queen's Royal Guard. The museum is called Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment Museum.

45 rooms. and 45 maids

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because it has a hill with a castle on top and a water river type thingy around it

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You can castle if you have been put in check previously in the game and removed the check without moving your king (either by blocking or capturing the opponent's piece). You cannot castle if: (a)you are currently in check; (b)you move your king through an attacked square on the board during the castle; or (c)you have moved your king or castling rook at any point in the game.

The person that controlled the medieval castles were the kings and queens. But the king and queen didn't like living in the castle for it was to crowded, so they would put the baron in charge while they were in their manor.