Caption:
Trebuchet, or French trebuchet, military machine for casting stones. Soldiers in chainmail and tunics firing projectiles at a castle. Siege engine used in medieval warfare. Woodcut after an ivory carving from Sir John Froissart's Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the Adjoining Countries, from the Latter Part of the Reign of Edward II to the Coronation of Henry IV, George Routledge, London, 1868.