The book of famous seiges
Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company
Published: 1909
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: Preface vii; title: The First Period:; title: A Siege in the Earliest Times 14; title: The Siege of Troy 26; title: The Siege of Babylon, 538 B.C.88; title: The Siege of Platea, 429 B.C. 47; title: The Second Period:; title: Siege of Tyre, 327 B.C. 66; title: The Siege of Saguntum, 219 B.C. 82; title: Siege of Syracuse, 214 B.C. 89; title: Siege of Alesia, 52 B.C. 94; title: Jerusalem, 70 A.D. 111; title: The Third Period:; title: Constantinople about 717 A.D. 137; title: Siege of Paris in 885 151; title: Siege of Antioch, 1097 A.D. 160; title: The Fourth Period:; title: Siege of Orleans in 1488 184; title: The Fall of Constantinople, 1453 202; title: The Siege of Rhodes, 158 210; title: The Fifth Period:; title: The Siege of Gibraltar, 178S 235; title: The Siege of Antwerp, 1832 247; title: The Siege of Vicksburg, 1868 257; title: The Siege of Paris, 1870 275; title: The Siege of Port Arthur, 1904 287; title: ILLUSTRATIONS; title: The Catapult, in the Days of the Wars between Rome and Carthage Frontispiece; title: The Wooden Horse at the Siege of Troy 32; title: Horatius Codes Defends the Bridge 44; title: Alexander Captures Tyre 76; title: Hannibal Crosses the Alps to Enter Italy 86; title: Julius Caesar, the Conqueror of Gaul 98; title: The Romans under Titus Attacking Jerusalem 128; title: A Battle against Besieging Normans 158; title: An Army of Crusaders 160; title: Joan of Arc Wounded before Orleans 198; title: The Turks Entering Constantinople 208; title: The Burning Ships before Gibraltar, 1783 244; title: General Grant, the Commander before Vicksburg 264; title: The Besieging of Vicksburg 272; title: Japanese 11-inch Siege Gun Firing on Port Arthur 292; title: A Charge of Japanese Infantry under Fire 292; title: General Baron Nogi, Commander of the Japanese; title: Forces before Port Arthur 296