Medieval battle
Waging Gentlemanly War
The Battle of Kawanakajima was an annual event fought between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. Both daimyo would ensure the battle ended in a draw. Depiction of the legendary personal conflict between Kenshin and Shingen at the fourth battle of Kawanakajima. Two of the early Sengoku Jidai’s most colourful daimyo were Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin. They represented the last…
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BATTLE OF THE SEINEÂ (1416)
A battle at sea from the Warwick pageant, produced at the end of the fifteenth century. Cannon as well as bowmen can be seen on the ship on the left. Fought on 15 August 1416 in the mouth of the Seine Estuary near HARFLEUR, the Battle of the Seine was…
Constantinople, 1203 AD
The Venetian Doge Dandolo, meanwhile, launched his own forces against the sea wall. He had built scaling towers, equipped with drawbridges, on the decks of his ships. On the face of it, the contract looked like a windfall. A group of French knights wanted transportation to Egypt to begin a…