What is the story of Trojan Horse?

Fragments are found in Homer's The Iliad (does not cover the Trojan Horse and the defeat) and The Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid, a host of major and minor references in much later plays, dissertations, speeches, histories, and depictions on pottery. These in combination make up the complete story as we know it, however the sparse and much-distorted sources make the story legend, not history. There is much modern speculation on what actually happened. Apparently, there was a series of piratical raids over several years in the 12th Century BCE, where the coast of the Aegean and islands was looted, and at the end Troy was one of the victims. The rest is speculation and poetry and art, distorted by time and retellings, replete with all the licence to stray from fact and reality given to poets and artists. See related link.