During the Siege of Strasbourg, nearly 200,000 German artillery shells had landed in the city, doing extensive damage and leveling entire neighborhoods, leaving 10,000 people homeless. Despite this, Uhrich had held out for 46 days with a force of 10,000 men against a besieging force that reached a strength of 60,000. Uhrich nonetheless received strong criticism in France for the capitulation of Strasbourg. Many people in France viewed him as having behaved too courteously toward the enemy, claimed he had surrendered Strasbourg prematurely, and even accused him of committing an act tantamount to treason by surrendering the city.