The Creative Way Medieval Soldiers Penetrated Castles

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Attacking a castle was a difficult task for any army; but attacking forces came up with a multitude of ways to bring down castle defences and attack those within.
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Show Created by Daniel Turner (B.A. (Hons) in History, University College London)
Script: Robert de Graaf
Narrator: Chris Kane
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Intro: (00:00)
Attacking A Castle: (00:05)
Castle's Became More Sophisticated: (00:40)
Introduction Of Gunpowder (01:17)
Moats Made It Harder: (01:57)
Sapping In History: (03:38)
The Siege of 1215: (06:09)
1224 Siege Of Bedford: (08:00)
Modern Use Of Sapping: (09:08)
Outro: (10:18)

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@Simplehistory 3 күн бұрын

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@user-mt1mb6uf8l 3 күн бұрын

Hello simple history I love your channel because it teaches me about history and make me inspired to be a soldier went I grow up but can u make a video like Christmas truce and the türkiye soldier saves a Australian wounded soldier and I would love to watch those on your youtube videos have a good day!!!

@user-mt1mb6uf8l 3 күн бұрын

I can't watch all your vids daily so I'm kinda sorry.

@user-yr3uh7qf3v 3 күн бұрын

'SPY IS SAPPING MY CASTLE!'

@Seebee2007 3 күн бұрын

*spy checks with sword*

@user-yr3uh7qf3v 3 күн бұрын

@@Seebee2007EYELANDER WAS REAL!? 😲

@Seebee2007 3 күн бұрын

@@user-yr3uh7qf3v FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!

@theskullboy8700 2 күн бұрын

**blasts degroot keep theme”

@ViceN53X 2 күн бұрын

In all seriousness, I want a medieval construct kit for Engie

@youngmasterzhi 2 күн бұрын

Sappers: Nothing is beneath them, but they’re always beneath you!

@MonkeyJedi99 2 күн бұрын

Battle cry of the Underminer!

@Switcharoo12 2 күн бұрын

Except counter-sappers that tunneled under the tunnelers.

@EGRJ Күн бұрын

@@Switcharoo12 "You may have undermined me, but I undermined your undermining!"

@corymorimacori1059 3 күн бұрын

“Kings, queens, dragons, dwarves, horses, fortresses, magic and swords!” JRR Tolkien

@brianmoyachiuz905 3 күн бұрын

Eeeey, a fellow ERB fan

@cannonball666 2 күн бұрын

Guye Fawkes: "Bring the torch closer to see if there is gunpowder in this barrel"

@Marinealver 2 күн бұрын

What can the defender do against mining? Countermining! Dig a tunnel but dig it deeper and then seal it off. When the miners tunnel over the unstable ground it will cause a cave in.

@soggywafl 2 күн бұрын

This is the first video game sponsor that I think I am actually going to try! And thanks for the great video, as usual!

@MonkeyJedi99 2 күн бұрын

I was tickled that the ad read was introduced by an animated host in medieval armor... with a frag grenade and slide-action pistol.

@davidburke8682 2 күн бұрын

There has been use of tunneling in the war in ukraine sometimes making their own or finding old post and pre ww2 soviet tunnel systems

@pierluigiadreani2159 3 күн бұрын

The war in the alps during ww1 was maybe one of the pinnacle of this. Austrians and Italians digging tunnel in the hard mountains and placing giant mines to Blow up part of the mountains where the enemy was stationing. Nightmare fuel

@tankriley2712 2 күн бұрын

Surprised he didn’t mention the Battle of the Crater from the American Civil War

@-HughJass- Күн бұрын

Siege of Petersburg

@user-kr7yh8vw9m 3 күн бұрын

My most sincere congratulations Simple History, well done. I never heard of such a tactic in the Middle Ages before but now i do, thank you. Fun fact: today the word today sapping is used to refer to combat engineers which is very similar to the sapping of the middle ages.

@theprancingprussian 2 күн бұрын

A sap is also a term for zigzag trenches used to approach a frontline, often used to approach early modern forts which were damn near impossible to use escalades on and were resistant to artillery at its effective range, they brought guns way closer than point blank, similar to using a battering ram or trebuchet on a stone wall, minimal damage but over time can make it crumble

@write-only 20 сағат бұрын

In France, firefighters are called sapeurs-pompiers.

@shawnfoogle920 2 күн бұрын

More Medieval videos. Love em

@thewafflegamer6152 Күн бұрын

fun fact: the biggest usage of this tactic led to the biggest explosion in history prior to the first nuclear bombs.

@karhonglooi7485 Күн бұрын

The battle of Messines, orchestrated by British general Herbert Plumer with 1mil pounds of TNT

@MalevolentBite 2 күн бұрын

So this is why Army Sappers symbol is a red castle / tower

@midhunmanu007 3 күн бұрын

Thank you Simple History for making such great videos .

@Harikejn 16 сағат бұрын

At the battle of Epra (9:30), there is rumor that Erwin Rommel was there. During that time he was a captain. Also digging tunnels was also done during the WWII, when the POW's were escaping from the prisons from the occupiers. There is a rumor that movie Great Escape was dedicated to one truth story when only three POW's managed to escape. Similar escape was also during the WWII, but in Yugoslavia. The couple of the Yugoslav immigrants were arrested by the occupiers and they were held in city Sremska Mitrovica (now Serbia). And they also did decide to dig tunnel, and they managed to dig tunnel, and they escaped. When they escaped, they went to Fruška Gora, (a mountain near city of Novi Sad), and after that they joined the resistance. Believe it or not during the Roman Empire Sremska Mitrovica was called Sirmium.

@TheDesertFox1996 2 күн бұрын

Interesting concept I had forgotten and didn't realize the extent of its use. would be fascinating to see it used in modern conflicts.

@Princess_Celestia_ 18 сағат бұрын

Not very likely to happen, it much more effective and less intinsive and time consuming to just use a bunker buster to take out a fortification, and we got missiles that can render trenches into craters at the drop of a hat, so there's really no considerable use for sapping with tunnels these days.

@Rlemans5920 2 күн бұрын

2024 will be the Medieval Year!

@Guranga93 2 күн бұрын

Made me think of a video called ''Massive tunnel bomb hits Syrian army base''

@Yeeoldman63 Күн бұрын

I got a new cross section video idea. Since you did the Sturm Tiger, you need to finish the family with The König Tiger and the Porsche tiger.

@barbiquearea Күн бұрын

Besides moats and castles built around large bodies of water. I imagine trying to sap a castle that is built on very high ground (such as at the top of a mountain) must have been especially challenging. I don't know of any accounts where a mountain fortress fell to sapping.

@CARL_093 2 күн бұрын

this is a huge gamble and game of time if it succeed a sure win taking over the fort or castles is sure win or up for grasp

@ItssMrN 3 күн бұрын

Very nice 👍

@toxic_nation3004 2 күн бұрын

During the wars in iraq during in early 2000s militias used to tunnel and plant ieds under held compounds

@bearcub460 3 күн бұрын

You didn't mention the Battle of the Crater 1864.

@connorthompson8376 Күн бұрын

There was actually an example of sapping used in the American Civil War. It was called the battle of the crater. The union forces managed to blow up the confederate fortifications, but then sent their forces into the crater instead of around it. Nobody thought to provide ladders. I think there was one confederate officer, who called it “a turkey shoot.”

@Princess_Celestia_ 18 сағат бұрын

They couldn't go around the crater because of all the Confederate trenches on either side. These trenches are why they made that crater to start with. The plan was to undermine and explode a section of enemy trenches creating a gap they could exploit. Problem was they didn't realize just how deep of a crater they where going to make. And they didn't have time to make ladders because then the gap whould get shorn up and any advantage it had given them would have been squandered.

@connorthompson8376 10 сағат бұрын

@@Princess_Celestia_ I think that sounds reasonable. Ultimately, there were multiple factors that led to the failure. Also, I don’t know how accurate it was, but I came across a novelization of the battle, where an all black unit was originally trained for the operation, new to go around it, and then was swapped out, because the higher-ups didn’t want blacks to be the heroes. Like I said, I have no idea whether that novel was even the least bit accurate. It also made the claim that the sharp edge of the crater had something to do with the type of explosives being used. Again, I can’t vouch for accuracy.

@josenathanieltendencia245 Күн бұрын

I watched the movie Ironclad. There was a scene of the enemy army underming the castle.

@stevenrusch6341 Күн бұрын

In WoW: BFA, the Alliance should have considered sapping at the Ruins of Capital City.

@TerryTurner 3 күн бұрын

Clever!😁👍

@natheriver8910 Күн бұрын

Very interesting

@theprancingprussian 2 күн бұрын

Looking for a good depiction of this to increase knowledge and this looks perfect Edit: how would the miners know when they were under a target, were they looking for the foundations or measure the distance, in ww1 there was nothing much too look out for

@thepunisher8676 2 күн бұрын

Can you do a video about Patton's Panthers

@eyeroll5060 3 күн бұрын

Essayons et Faisons

@iwacuinstituteoffamilycounsell Күн бұрын

Could you do a video on black hawk down?

@dillonbuford 3 күн бұрын

I don't believe the term " curtain wall" is being used correctly

@luisemoralesfalcon4716 2 күн бұрын

Wouldn't the soldiers beneath use less armor so they have less heatstroke? This just begs to be used on a D&D campaign.

@Covey7342 Күн бұрын

Disappointed there was no mention of the Battle of the Crater during the American Civil War

@grahamquinn 2 күн бұрын

Stone thrower, trebuchet?

@MonkeyJedi99 2 күн бұрын

Stone throwers include trebuchets, catapults, and other machinery.

@grahamquinn 2 күн бұрын

@MonkeyJedi99 I meant specifically that contraption but thanks for not educating me lol

@chriskeller3705 14 сағат бұрын

BEHOOOLD THE UNDERMINERRRRR

@devavratthaker3236 Күн бұрын

Did you know about the civil war dogs ?

@dukeofmania6504 3 сағат бұрын

Is this where “You’re undermining me” came from or is that a coincidence?

@Dan-pt2tn 2 күн бұрын

So this is where today's sappers originated. Essayons. Where the 12bravos at?

@EGRJ Күн бұрын

Ashes, ashes, they all fall down.

@ethanaleman 2 күн бұрын

Castles are cool

@Diana-Ramon 3 күн бұрын

*.....,Only real Simple History fans can like this ❤💛💜*

@DD-vn2ev 3 күн бұрын

Polish American volunteers in France, The Blue Army. Please

@ftra1987 2 күн бұрын

Syrian free army tunnels under army base and destroyed the base.

@baptistebarbet183 Күн бұрын

Please vidéo for afo armé français d'orian ww1

@RandomYT05_01 Күн бұрын

They tried tunneling in WW1. Didn't work.

@Ghostops12 3 күн бұрын

Under 1h gang

@ProfessorDreamer 3 күн бұрын

Simple History can you do a Simple History video on the Rise Of Religious Extremism.

@Dan-pt2tn 2 күн бұрын

And then the rise of secularism after that.

@Blastoice 2 күн бұрын

The animations on this video are dire, it looks like its been done in ms paint. Whats happened to the quality?

@coolsnake1134 Күн бұрын

Tunnel warfare and tunneling in general has been used in many wars since the second world war, it was used extensively by the Viet Cong, it was used in Iraq and Afghanistan during the war on terror, and even in 2024 it's seeing a return in the Russo Ukrainian war as well as the Israel hamas war as Hamas is using tunnels and IDF has to find and destroy them

@coolsnake1134 Күн бұрын

Tunnels are also used by the Mexican cartels to sneak under the US / Mexico border in order to smuggle narcotics money and weapons between US and Mexico

@SOUL-KING-93 6 сағат бұрын

I sharted ;0

@micahistory 3 күн бұрын

1st like and comment!

@marcossoarestv3557 2 күн бұрын

BRAZIL MAN WAR, HA HA HA,

@Joaquin-cu2dg 3 күн бұрын

First

@Thomas-yw7zg 2 күн бұрын

CE was created in the 500 something A.D by a scientist. It was flawed so the Gregorian Priest created a new system, Before Christ, Adoniils Diniri. They are not the same, go back to saying A.D, we notice.