what are trebuchets
A trebuchet (French trebuchet) trÃ©buchet is a type of catapult that was used as a siege engine in The Middle. Ages it is sometimes called a counterweight trebuchet or counterpoise, trebuchet to distinguish it from an earlier weapon called the traction, trebuchet where men pulling ropes provided the. poweride view of counterweight trebuchet. The first record of a counterweight trebuchet was in the 12th century from Mardi ibn Ali al-Tarsusi while talking of the conquests of Saladin. The next record of the counterweight trebuchet appears in the work of the 12th century Byzantine historian Niketas Choniates.