Video Top 10 Strangest Medieval War Tactics

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they’re digging a mine underneath us
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pigs fat welcome to watch Mojo and today
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we’re counting down our picks for the
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top 10 strangest medieval war tactics
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but before they left they decide to
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catapult their dead corpses the dead
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bodies of their victims into the town in
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order to quote extinguish everyone
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inside for this list we’ll be looking at
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Medieval battles with tactics so bizarre
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you may not even believe they were real
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are you a history buff are there other
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strange battles that we missed sound off
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in the comments below
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number 10 attacking one ship at a Time
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Battle of fimrita June 15 1184. the
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Norwegian Crown was perpetually up for
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grabs in the 1100s multiple men claimed
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the throne with constant infighting and
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War hi bro
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the kilrothy fleet is coming through the
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jump point one ship at a time in 1184
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King Magnus erlingson who himself took
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power in a coup was slain at the Battle
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of fimerita Magnus had a fleet of 26
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ships outnumbering his rival svyra
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Sigerson two to one don’t you understand
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that they’re going to attack in
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overwhelming numbers yeah
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if you have a better plan that Advantage
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was meaningless though since Magnus
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lashed most of his ships together
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sigershan attacked the small outlying
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vessels first
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with them out of the way he attacks the
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far end of the connected Fleet as one
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ship fell the survivors moved to the
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next by the time they reached the
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kingship the combined weight of all the
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crews sank it and drowned the king
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number nine trying not to kill the enemy
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Battle of bremuel August 20 11 19. one
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common misconception about medieval
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Warfare is the volume of killing amen
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get ready to dance with swords
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usually the goal was actually to capture
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as many enemy Nobles as possible
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she’ll take you to the castle where we
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will capture the king and the queen and
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the prince
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The Ransom of a wealthy Noble could set
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up the captors family for life that was
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taken to the extreme at the Battle of
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bremuel Louis the fat of France invaded
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Normandy to take the Holdings of Henry
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the first of England each side had a
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large contingent of knights blinded by
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greed and the prospect of large ransoms
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nobody tried to land any killing blows
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what do you want me to do
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someone’s gotta do something at the end
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of the battle only three Englishmen were
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reported killed and 140 Frenchmen were
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captured bremuel was as much a lark as
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it was a battle
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begins
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[Applause]
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number eight slippery ice fighting
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Battle of Lake pipus April 5th 1242.
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tales about 800 year old battles can
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differ depending on who tells them there
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are multiple versions of the battle of
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Lake pipas some say it ended in Mass
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drownings though most historians
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disagree everyone agrees on one thing
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they called it the battle on the ice
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a large force of Teutonic knights was
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sent by the pope against the Novgorod
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Republic
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Prince Alexander of Novgorod was a
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crafty foe faking a retreat he lured the
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overconfident Crusader Knights onto the
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surface of a frozen lake in their heavy
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armor the Crusaders and their Estonian
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allies were quickly exhausted trying to
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fight on the slippery ice
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look
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after an hour or two of fighting
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Alexander’s Reserve forces charged and
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routed them number seven the great
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piggyback Escape Siege of weinsberg 11
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40. the siege of weinsberg was part of
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an internal dispute between two Noble
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houses in the Holy Roman Empire
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determined not to repeat the errors of
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an earlier battle King Conrad III dealt
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brutally with the city of weinsberg
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[Applause]
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after nearly starving out the
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inhabitants the city was forced to
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surrender Conrad wished to make an
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example of weinsberg and kill everyone
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who stood against him
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control
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the men of the city begged him to allow
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their wives and the women to escape
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Conrad agreed to allow the women to walk
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away with whatever they could carry On
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My Honor as a gypsy whatever you could
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carry to his shock the women emerged
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from the gates carrying the men amused
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by their cunning he allowed them all to
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walk free come back give you a whole
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number six Dam and flood Battle of
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helagueon Circa 10 25 10 26. no Century
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in the Middle Ages would be complete
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without a war in northern Europe there’s
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plenty of worst ways to die
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than to jump this battle pitted England
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and Denmark against Sweden and Norway
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given the geography involved the
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conflict would be settled by Naval
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Warfare with their navies outnumbered
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the kings of Sweden and Norway relied on
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their wits first they damned up the
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hillaryaw river when the combined navies
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of knut the great entered Sweden
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destroyed the dam far she blows every
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ship caught in the Deluge that followed
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was sunk the swedes used the opportunity
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to retreat unfortunately knut’s Navy was
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so large the battle barely registered he
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went on to conquer Norway and form the
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North Sea Empire number five
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bomb rolling Siege of Castle egair
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1552.
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the Ottoman Empire fought many wars
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against the kingdoms of Eastern Europe
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in the mid 16th century they turned
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their ire upon Hungary fewer than 3 000
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hungarians defended Castle Aguirre
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against an army of 40 000 Turks over 12
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000 cannonballs struck the Fortress but
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the walls held the Defenders used
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primitive grenades to hold back the
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enemy
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thank you eventually they turned to a
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new tactic the hungarians filled massive
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barrels with gunpowder and sulfur after
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lighting the fuses they rolled the
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barrels downhill the explosions caused
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significant damage to the attacking Army
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when they ran out of barrels the
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hungarians filled a giant Mill wheel
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with explosives and shrapnel
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[Applause]
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after 39 days The Siege was broken and
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the Defenders were victorious number
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four up through the toilet Siege of
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Chateau Gallard
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1203-1204 King Richard The Lion Heart of
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England needed to defend Normandy to
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that end he built an impregnable
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Fortress at Chateau guyard the forces of
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Richard’s successor John defended it
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against the siege of Prince Philip II of
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France for months the two forces clashed
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bitterly Philip took the outer walls
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with sappers and Siege engines the inner
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Castle wouldn’t be so easy but like the
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Death Star The Fortress had one small
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overlooked weakness a precise hit would
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start a chain reaction which should
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destroy the station Philip sent men to
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crawl through the Castle’s guard Road
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also known as the toilet Chute from
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there they penetrated the inner Valley
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and took the castle yo yo play man
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what’s up I think something’s wrong with
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the Toilet Man the embarrassment that
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guyard helped convince the English
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Barons to rebel against Jon this
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ultimately led to the signing of the
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Magna Carta number three burning pigs
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Siege of Rochester 1215
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in the first Barons War various Nobles
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rebelled against King John the first of
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England their forces captured the castle
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at Rochester but didn’t hold it for Long
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John himself arrived soon after and laid
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siege for most of the two months both
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sides battled viciously
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[Applause]
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John bombarded The Defenders with Siege
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weapons and assaulted the walls he also
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sent a team of sappers to dig under the
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foundation of the tower when the tunnel
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was ready his men selected 40 pigs
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deemed too fat to eat they forced the
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pigs into the tunnel and set fire to
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them what’d you think they’re doing
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thanks
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for a satisfy
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shappers they’re digging a mine
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underneath us
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pigs fat it burns with the heat of a
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crucible the conflagration undermines
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The Masonry and brought down part of the
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keep
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eventually The Defenders had to
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surrender
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number two accidentally bringing the
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black plague to Europe Siege of kapha
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1346 the Black Death began to Surge and
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spread through Central Asia in 1331
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carried by fleas and rats the plague
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took hold in any and every large
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settlement it reached in 1346 it found
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its foothold in Europe one person would
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get sick first the family might start to
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take care of them maybe friends would
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come and help but then others in the
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family would get sick and you can
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imagine that very quickly people would
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abandon any attempt to help each other
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after an initial Siege of kapha was
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broken in 1343 Mongol forces returned to
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the Crimean City three years later the
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Mongol Army had a huge problem they’d
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brought the plague with them the troops
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were quickly decimated by disease trying
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to kill two birds with one stone the
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Mongol General engaged in the first
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known use of biological warfare he
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launched plague ridden corpses into the
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city the residents took the plague with
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them when they escaped by ship spreading
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the black death to the rest of Europe
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number one bee bombs and burning beer
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Siege of Chester Circa 907
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you don’t mess around when you’re
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fighting Vikings if they attack you
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throw everything you have
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foreign
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that’s why the Lord and Lady of Chester
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used every trick when the Danes and
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Norwegians attacked in 907 the Danes
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were dealt with quickly they were lured
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into a trap and killed with hurled
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stones and wooden beams raise your arm
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like so then you throw it
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the Norwegians wouldn’t be so easily
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tricked instead when the Vikings
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attacked the wall The Defenders boiled
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all the beer in town they then tipped
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the cauldrons over the walls and burned
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the attackers with boiling beer though
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brutal that didn’t end the attack what
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did the Defenders tossed every beehive
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in the city onto the Viking horde
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foreign
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the bee stings were so severe the Army
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had to retreat
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