Vigiles de Charles VII
 
Date Description Source Reference
1418 - 19 A.D.  Twelve bell tents (brown, green and white) and one blue pavilion. 

The brown bell tent has a ball apex and the roof over laps the wall, roof line is decoration in circles and dots. 

The blue pavilion’s roof has a gold line along the roof ridge and along the roof edge, the roof edge is decoration with the same pattern as the brown tent, the roof also has are red cross on it. 

The other bell tents in the front also have the red crosses decorating the roof.

 “The taking of Rouen 1418 - 19 by Henry V, in which significant use was made of cannon warfare (Vigiles de Charles VII, fifteenth century).” Bibliothèque National, Paris Koch, H.W., Medieval Warfare, London, 1978, p. 83.
1419 A.D.  Fourteen bell tents (brown, white or green in colour), very little detail, roof delineation on front three tents. “Hundred Year’s War: Henry V storms the walled city of Rouen with cannons during the siege of 1419 (Vigiles de Charles VII, fifteenth century).” Bibliothèque National, Paris  Koch, H.W., Medieval Warfare, London, 1978, p. 136.

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