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Siege of Rouen, 1418-1419 (1893). The Siege of Rouen took place during the Hundred Years War. The English surrounded the city in July 1418 with the intention of starving the French defenders into submission. The city eventually surrendered in January 1419. An illustration from A Short History of the English People, by John Richard Green, illustrated edition, Volume II, Macmillan and Co, London, New York, 1893.