New-York tribune., 1905-01-08
Foreign Resorts.

WAS condemned 10 death. His surrender praeticalV
eliminated the re gulsr French army rom 'ne
conflict. ..asa
The siege of Paris in vastness OF SCOPE s1, eN..s9
ANYTHING in modern history-a capital CITY,
s . rn5 noo neonle and defended by over @o~o
troops largely raw levies, to be sure heia out Io
September 10 to January rs and yieiueu I"S IT,
starvation made further defence inlposS'o's sI 80
German army numbered nearly zoO.OU' ,''s.s
coyrnleteIv invested the city. few rrenca oHi1e.
- v,,tssnen keeping up communication WIZ
the outside world by means Of balloons ll'e Sese
was marked by little desperate hsntihs' s'.,-,a
successful sorties covering the FIenH ~ % ~ ga
lighting. The losses Of the oeIeIs1' ,e o.e men
The most famous siege oI Tbsre ere tie great Cardi
IuTs @ RtnbeIieu for fourteen months oso1
Huguenot defender Finally: a1I oy that closed the
aancs to the harbor ne stasseo tnr Gneyished
submission Fully 15oo OF ths tv naily captuated
r. is recorded there were ey on yh G as in several
eoie 10 oo1duries o sustained notable si5se' Ctto
1ated the FORMER oounGany tRe dates OF
vestent sggnsifief7an9t Ign can ,7as 6eTTaos T7ss
l4Ss lioo To- seges that of Constantlnope 90, o
the Turks in 1853 is the most IdnUI EnIre which had
OF IS nne ~ Il an Eastern land to this tune; t, ni m
Siege lasted fy-thres lays ysrtIsrv aEg was employed
sIthongh catapults ANCIENT engneS 0 de-
WeTs d al fp ctv and It's defence was marked % WIZ
Extreme courage. But the Turks DoItion Of
the defenders MY "a and finally by sheer weight OF
numbers psaSed bv the erce janissaries Con
stantine was among the last to fall ana atte1 agH @
N 90 perso1s Derishing in the sack Of the CITY anu
fOOOO were reduced 10 slavery; Cor,boge Tyre
Of ancient steges those of Rome. to;orihy
Syracuse and Jerusalem are the most % 9Isr,
The siege. capture and sack OF tpa bloodiest OF
sieges Rome at that time contained ,hI Hiiii9I On
aniI % 410 A D. l163 years after the fouHdRg
of the city = saa,S was sdAE as Enormous Genseric
the Tandai once more took the city tn1s ufne the
attack from the water SIDE IN 4H v a. was IS the foot
ban of the barbarans pillaged so tEeanen'y a ga ms Is
bni1Sipgs to ruins 1t was not until lS9 tna1 the me
last foreign garrison of Rome was liz us.s 70.
Napoleon III of France, and Italian RUE "aS to
stored -, ..r,,,rs q, Carthage In 145
The final ssgs Esr aFe t6 Gas captured de-
tenders maintained their fight In the stISeC as1
six 5avs daSs ended ana the e orv Of the Rome
The conquerors razed me Gs5y anu Roman colony
was founded there OF all the cites s OF f iqe
none @ apg PPe city once mistress of the ocean and
defended BY wall eighteen miles IN d sxtSc :, all al
fSrtyso TX Se ee' investing forces was that Of syracuse
in Sicily where more than forty sstg estroyed
The Athenian general %as wa ts slam sfes asa 'ne
But Of all the sieges Of antiquity that Of 5ern
salem by Titus is the most memoraole me nf
hesieseT hes oy wei en re'f from April to september D
70 For the first rd tine me In catapGs and war engines
of Titus were destroyed by mine excavaleo pc pc
neafh them and filled with pitch Prisoners WSIe
crucifed the space between the oeslsse1 a1 1sTs
sieger animals eaten and even the rats "Sae
se as food by the defenders, and II IS charged tht
human flesh YVES devoured- The defenee anS saSA IN
of the city according 10 Josephus, cost the w
tenders the lives OF 11C000 of their NUMBER WhTs
o. 600 we're ca aptured After the triple hnes OF Wa1s
ba6 heep captured the defenders retired 10 t1e
temple and held out for DAYS Finally the temple
itself was fired a Roman soldier contrary, 20
tbe orders Of Titus and utterly destroyed while
beneath its ruins the last vestige Of resistance per
ished Thousands of Jews graced the triumph OF
the conaueror at Rome. and were subsequently soId
into slavery and the final dispersal or the JeWisn
race began The Arch of Titus commemoFatins
this triumph. still stands near the Coliseum, mn IN
Rome the best preserved of the ancient n1cnu-
nents as In the narrative of Josephus the most
minute and detailed account Of an ancient siege