Siege of Rouen mb-code AACW001045 King Henry IV of England

King Henry IV of England

Guimpel sc:' Johann Friedrich Eschscholtz (1793-1831) Livonian physician

to illustrate the author's description of the simplest type of spectroscope

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

Siege of Rouen mb-code AACW001045 King Henry IV of EnglandSiege 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.