English troops under King Edward III storm the town of Caen, France, defended by Raoul II, Count of Eu, 1346. Longbowmen and spearmen target French soldiers at the gate. Battle of Caen. Woodcut after an illuminated manuscript from Sir John Froissart's Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the Adjoining Countries, from the Latter Part of the Reign of Edward II to the Coronation of Henry IV, George Routledge, London, 1868.

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