Siege of Rouen Product:Canvas which held a crane for

which held a crane for raising or fitting masts to ships

with its front paws resting on a page inscribed

'Passer niger

From the Gobelin tapestry by Charles Lebrun

you had better consent to give up 'The Three Crowns'

Siege of Rouen Product:Canvas which held a crane forSiege 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.