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on April 2, 1866, and most of tho works
were captured. # The defenders eva uate ed
the city during the following mig ht.
tt44S3The Danish redoubts IL OF Luppel sweNa
but poor affairs; and only lrmcd 4 VIII
smooth bore Dopguns; neYert he loss the Dc;
Tense lasted slxty-flves days 4, hey x ere
.stornled on the 18th q April, 1854 y by 1G
900 men, who ffered lss 8: casual ties.
" In the Franco crmnni war formal
sieges were only Undertaken at Bel fort5and
.Strassburg, and partial sieges at Paris,
}schlcttstadt, and LONG Wy. The forti lea
tons Of Paris were thirty years old and
the average age or the. rest was S15O years.
AllgjRcre A III formed Il and completc ely Sun-
prepared. strassburg was NJ invested II OH
tho 18th OF August, $40. and tho regular
siege began on Al gust got III lasting fifty
one days. The siege train comprised 5000
men. with 200 guns and 100 ortars, @ The
garrison numbered II 1000. 4 he attack was
made by regular approaches, the outWorksi
being preached BY distant fire and by
mining, and the main rampant by g tho
high anglo fire Of tho sbntteries In the
second parallel Everything had been pre-
pared for the final assault when the city
scapitulated on September q TIL y Tho Ger
man artillery fired 1922 rounds.
# sefort held out for41O days, but tthe5
hesicgers were Insufficient 80, 600 Is men
pit4ed against Il garrIson OF 1900 The
bombardment lasted day and night from
December 3. 1870. to February 10, 1s7l,Sthes
Germans throwing 100000 projectles Into
the town. ~ x II
u Paris held 1 out l31 days. but tho bonn
bardment, Of tho advanced works only
was comparatively short, wiz. from Do
cenlber AZ 1870 to January Is. 1871 II Long
Wy Innde q vigorous defense OF twenty
nine days. Tho Germans &bornbarded at
long Slan GO q number of French fortified
towns, while they Invested Others, and
'ohserved' ! more, but these cannot be
classified as sieges, * # II n
In{1S77 tho Russians tried to rush Osn,an.
llPashn's cntrenched camp a T. E'leyna. They
| first attncked the place on j uly5 Goth with
1000 men. and We're hurled back wi IA
loss of third, q They next assaulted on
July Both, with 10000, and were repulsed
With a loss Of 900, On September 1lth
LATTER a. four days lhonbardmant, they
made w third tless attempt with 10000
and u lost $500, They then concluded 10
resort ton blockade rather than a siege.
| The limo theySOc was forty-six miles
| lin length, and theGstrengtll8of the invests
Ling army attained 10000 irfantry, With
i,3bl0 field guns, hui only forty siege guns
| The Turkish garrison was mover stronger
than 40, 900 On December 9th Osmnn d <
tempted to break out, but beng surround
| ed and terribly defented glle surrendered
Internationally on2the following day,
Citadel Of Kars. n!
AT tho same period Ilars, though great
|ly strengthened since 1S5 with twelve
detached forts and II citadel. only resist
Led thirty days. Az their bnmbardment
| with forty-eight pieces failed utterly, the
laRussians decided TO assault with $4,000
| men Wlilcl they did on The bright moon
Light night Of November 17-1s, 1877, This
WAS n slngnlarly We'll executed affair.
| The points OF attack were ski fully selecr-
ed, tho various columns attacked smll-
ItAneously, and tl,e Turks We're taken CONS
'pletely by surprise. OF the garrlson ne
q 900, "a \ save forty33w were killed , wounded.
| or captured, 4 a The Russian casual ties nun,-
lbered 2,,a73, s. 3 *
..1aslie three greu I sis gers. so called in
/ the South A frican war were mn feklng.
/ zig days; Kimberley, l23 days, ana Lady
smith, 11s days. None, of course, was IA
fortress, and Il tho places Mere invested
rather than besleged lssS5S n