A point about siege ladders

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In the movies, climbing a ladder to attack a castle is shown a suicidally dangerous. Was it? How did they actually use ladders in assaults on fortified places?
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Walls of Rome image
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Krak des Chevaliers image
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Walls of Byzantium image
By en:User:Bigdaddy1204 - Photograph taken in June 2006 in Istanbul by en:User:Bigdaddy1204. All credits go
to him., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

Apollodorus of Damascus image
By Gun Powder Ma - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

Trajan's column image
By Attributed to Apollodorus of Damascus - Conrad Cichorius: "Die Reliefs der Traianssäule",
Zweiter Tafelband: "Die Reliefs des Zweiten Dakischen Krieges", Tafeln 58–113, Verlag von Georg
Reimer, Berlin 1900, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

Chinese scaling ladder image
By cncs - 摄于陕西西安长乐门城楼 photographed at City wall of Xi'an by Cncs, CC BY-SA 4.0,
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Merlons image
By Luis Rogelio HM - Avila Capital - 084, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

Chimera image
National Archaeological Museum / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)

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