To: C19fan
Grond -- named after The Hammer of The Underworld -- was a battering ram for work which was "up close and personal".
A Trebuchet is a bit more "standoffish".
The official documents of the time show that Edward sent a letter to his treasurer and the barons of the exchequer "firmly enjoining you with haste to provide a horse load of cotton, quick sulphur and saltpeter… for casting fire into the castle."
I'm surprised to see "cotton" referenced. I don't know how much actual cotton was present in Medieval England.
2 posted on
05/01/2017 11:53:19 AM PDT by
ClearCase_guy
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To: ClearCase_guy
I would think wool would have been more common than cotton.
4 posted on
05/01/2017 11:59:37 AM PDT by
oldvirginian
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To: ClearCase_guy
"I'm surprised to see "cotton" referenced. I don't know how much actual cotton was present in Medieval England." Gun cotton, perhaps?
7 posted on
05/01/2017 12:43:39 PM PDT by
D_Idaho
("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...".)
To: ClearCase_guy
By the middle ages, cotton from the middle east was traded throughout Europe through Venetian merchants.
It’s not too surprising that Edward knew about gunpowder, because Roger Bacon published a recipe for it in 1261, during Edward’s reign.
9 posted on
05/01/2017 2:19:28 PM PDT by
Boogieman
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