2-648-646 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'An Incident in the Siege of Leith', 1548-1560, (c1880). The Siege of Leith ended a twelve-year encampment of French troops at Leith, a port of prime strategic importance near Edinburgh, Scotland. French troops arrived by invitation to assist the Scots in 1548 during the Rough Wooing and left in 1560 after an English fleet, under the command of William Wynter, attempted to assist in removing them from Scotland. From British Battles on Land and Sea, Vol. I, by James Grant. [Cassell Petter & Galpin, London, Paris & New York, c1880]