Siege of Rouen mb-code AACW001045 Guimpel sc:' Johann Friedrich Eschscholtz

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

Both of the ships involved were of the new iron-clad models

A chimney-sweep's boy eating a piece of bread and holding a brush

at a gas school during the First World War

by whose sagacity all the preceding shells were discovered

Siege of Rouen mb-code AACW001045 Guimpel sc:' Johann Friedrich EschscholtzSiege 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.