Wolf von Senftenberg, How to lay siege to a city.

 
Date Description Source Reference
1570 A.D. Foreground. 

Eight bell tents and one pavilion (tops visible only). The pavilion consists of two bell sections at either end and a connecting straight section (red and white stripes, two point guy rope attachment, pennons flying from both apexes. 

Bell tents (yellow or white in colour) are decorated with a variety of stripes or swirls in a range of colours. The apex guy rope is clearly visible on all the bell tents in the foreground. 

Background. 

Twenty bell tents (yellow or white in colour) in background, more detail on tents on left flank, pennons fly from all the tent apexes. 

“How to lay siege to a city (Military Treatise by Wolf von Senftenberg, 1570).” Bibliothèque National, Paris. Koch, H.W., Medieval Warfare, London, 1978, p. 251.


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