[Moose4]

In the Middle Ages, didn't some armies catapult dead animals over the walls of besieged cities in the hopes of starting plagues?

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[cspackler]

I was just going to post the same question about the dead animals. I cannot point to the source, but I have heard of this, as well as using decaying carcasses to poison the water supply of a city. During the crusades, IIRC.

[CougarGA7]

I think it was more of a psychological thing. They also would catapult the heads of men and women they had killed leading up to the siege.

[George W. Bush]

In the Middle Ages, didn't some armies catapult dead animals over the walls of besieged cities in the hopes of starting plagues?

I've read the same thing here at FR in the last year on some thread.

[FierceDraka]

In the Middle Ages, didn't some armies catapult dead animals over the walls of besieged cities in the hopes of starting plagues?

Yeah, and they dumped animal carcasses in the wells to poison the enemy's woter supply, too.

[bannie]

I believe they catapulted "plague-plagued" bodies onto the ships of enemies.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #4

Chinese launched human waste into enemy fortress via their cannons, to do the same.