King Louis IX of France and his army disembarking at Damietta, Egypt, in 1249 on the 7th Crusade. In a common anachronism, the army and fleet are equipped with cannons. From a woodcut in Francois Regnault’s Grand voyage de Hierusalem, Paris, 1522. Debarquement des croises a Damiette. Woodcut by Etienne Huyot and Jules Huyot from Paul Lacroix’s La Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen Age et a l’Epoque de la Renaissance, Military and Religious Life in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Paris, 1873.

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