Siege of Rouen mb-code AACW001045 A man on the left

A man on the left vomits while a poor beggar steps eagerly towards a joint of meat which is about to be carved

by whose sagacity all the preceding shells were discovered

the mentally unstable Ibrahim I

King Henry IV of England

7th February 1963

Siege of Rouen mb-code AACW001045 A man on the leftSiege of Rouen, 1418 1419 (1893). The Siege of Rouen took place during the Hundred Years War. The English surrounded the city in July 1418 with the intention of starving the French defenders into submission. The city eventually surrendered in January 1419. An illustration from A Short History of the English People, by John Richard Green, illustrated edition, Volume II, Macmillan and Co, London, New York, 1893.