Warriors scale the walls of a besieged city with ladders
Date Description Source Reference
14th century. Three bell tents in left background. Front bell tent; blue cone apex colouring, blue line decoration on roof and walls, scalloped roof edge decoration (alternatively coloured red and white) overhanging walls, single point guy rope attachment to roof line. Second bell tent; the same designs are used on the second bell tent but the scalloped edges are coloured blue instead of red.  “Warriors scale the walls of a besieged city with ladders (Bodleian ms, fourteenth century).” Koch, H.W., Medieval Warfare, London, 1978, p. 151.

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