Melchior Feselen, The Siege of Alesia.
Date Description Source Reference
1535 A.D. Seven wedge tents, three pavilions and fourteen cone tents. 

The cone tents are white with dark line decoration on the roof and heraldic shield on roof. 

Pavilions, white heraldic shields on roofs, apex guy ropes on pavilion on left.

Fig. 245. Melchior Feselen, ‘The Siege of Alesia, c. 1533. Munich, Alte Pinakothek. Hale, J.R., Artists and Warfare in the Renaissance, London, 1990, p. 197.


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