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Traction Trebuchet Illustrations
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Traction Trebuchet Illustrations
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| This page is an index of the historic illustrations of traction (or "human-powered") trebuchets appearing on the 'Grey Co Trebuchet' web-pages. By clicking on the illustration number to the left of any of the brief picture descriptions you will go to the appropriate place in the file containing your choice. |
| 0 | Traction Trebuchet Spotting (The parts, workings and types of historical traction trebuchets) |
| 1 | The Siege of Carcassonne in 1209 (stone carving: trebuchet, crew and sling holder) |
| 2 | Chronicle of Petrus de Eboli c.1180. (two single-post trebuchets plus archers and a crossbowman) |
| 3 | Hasan al-Rammah c.1285 (simple drawing of traction trebuchet with unusual tucked-under sling) |
| 4 | Maciejowsky Bible (I) (traction trebuchet with sling handler being lifted off the ground) |
| 5 | Maciejowsky Bible (II) (two crewmen at sling of traction trebuchet) |
| 6 | Hsuan Feng (Whirlwind) (Chinese 11th century machine with many pull ropes) |
| 7 | A battery of Hsuan Feng (multiple single-post machines mounted on a single base) |
| 8 | "Four-footed" trebuchet (Chinese trebuchet on heavy four-post stand) |
| 9 | Heavy Traction Trebuchet (European machine on a heavy frame) |
| 10 | "Wheeled Whirlwind" (a Chinese single-post trebuchet mounted on a wheeled base) |
| 11 | Savonne (I) (Siege of Savonne; showing heavy framed and light single post trebuchets) |
| 12 | Savonne (II) (Siege of Savonne with two, possibly three, heavy traction trebuchets) |
| 13 | "Rock Hurling Engine", 19th Century redrawing (a pulling crew and sling handler - but little visible trebuchet) |
| 14 | Drawing from palace of Piandjikent (7th-8th Century Transoxanian light framed trebuchet with crew) |
| 15 | Siege of Acre (Heavy weighted machine with crew plus defenders on the city wall.) |
| 16 | Tower-top Trebuchet (Light single-post trebuchet on top of a tall fortress tower.) |
| 17 | Tower-top Trebuchet (II) (Elegant Book of Trebuchets illustration showing light machine.) |
| 18 | Framed Machines (Two mystery frame-built weapons - Elegant Book of Trebuchets and a 13th C Iranian dish) |
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