About this book
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
Chapters (26)
1The Taking of Cities
2The First Period
3A Siege in the Earliest Times
4The Siege of Troy
5The Siege of Babylon, 538 BC
6The Siege of Plataea, 429 BC
7The Second Period
8The Siege of Tyre, 327 BC
9The Siege of Saguntum, 219 BC
10The Siege of Syracuse, 214 BC
11Siege of Alesia, 52 BC
12Jerusalem, 70 AD
13The Third Period
14Constantinople, about 717 AD
15Siege of Paris in 885
16Siege of Antioch, 1097 AD
17The Fourth Period
18Siege of Orleans in 1428
19The Fall of Constantinople, 1453
20The Siege of Rhodes, 1522
21The Fifth Period
22The Siege of Gibraltar, 1783
23The Siege of Antwerp, 1832
24The Siege of Vicksburg, 1863
25The Siege of Paris, 1870
26The Siege of Port Arthur, 1904
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