Book of Famous Sieges

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Children's Non-fiction

Authors: Tudor Jenks In Year : 1909

Book Language: English

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Preface
The Taking of Cities
The First Period
A Siege in the Earliest Times
The Siege of Troy
The Siege of Babylon, 538 BC
The Siege of Plataea, 429 BC
The Second Period
The Siege of Tyre, 327 BC
The Siege of Saguntum, 219 BC
The Siege of Syracuse, 214 BC
Siege of Alesia, 52 BC
Jerusalem, 70 AD
The Third Period
Constantinople, about 717 AD
Siege of Paris in 885
Siege of Antioch, 1097 AD
The Fourth Period
Siege of Orleans in 1428
The Fall of Constantinople, 1453
The Siege of Rhodes, 1522
The Fifth Period
The Siege of Gibraltar, 1783
The Siege of Antwerp, 1832
The Siege of Vicksburg, 1863
The Siege of Paris, 1870
The Siege of Port Arthur, 1904

History is dominated by war, battles, and sieges. Our history books are full of these. But history books usually don't explain sieges in such an accessible and at times entertaining way as Tudor Jenks manages in this 1909 volume. The text and explanations are directed at children, but interested adults will profit from them in the same way. - Summary by Carolin