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The crusaders use a trebuchet to throw Turkish heads into Nicaea, 13th cent. French manuscript miniature

Crusaders throwing heads into Nicaea
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    Crusaders bombard Nicaea with heads in 1097. Literature: David Nicolle, Medieval Siege Weapons (1): Western Europe AD 585-1385, Osprey Publishing, 2002, p. 21

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