1544-2

The Siege of Boulogne by Henry VIII.

Date

Description

Source

Reference

1544 A.D.

The top of a bell tent can be seen in the lower left corner at the rear of the besieger’s encampment, note the evenly spaced horizontal line decoration.

In Bradbury’s picture there are; seventeen wall tents, two triangular pavilions, thirty seven bell tents.

Three point guy rope attachments on bell and wall tents. Flags flying from the tops of tents, heraldic devices depicted on roofs, roof edge and wall decoration.

“Siege of Boulogne by Henry VIII, 1544. Engraving by James Basire after S.H.Grimm from the original paintings at Cowdray which were destroyed by fire, National Army Museum.”

“Copy of lost painting of the 1544 siege of Boulogne which includes archers.” (Engraving by James Basire after S.H.Grimm. National Army Museum from a painting at Cowdray destroyed by fire).

Hardy, R., Longbow A Social and Military History, New York, 1976, p. 132.

Bradbury, J., The Medieval Archer, Great Britain, 1985, p. 155.

Another version of the Siege of Boulogne.

Link to picture

http://www.currentmiddleages.org/tents/bologne.htm

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