Category: History - Ancient
Siege of Platæa—Numantia—Tyre—Syracuse—Lines of Circumvallation—Siege of Jerusalem—Of La Réole—Effects of the invention of gunpowder—Siege of Ostend—Magdeburg—Character of the mercenary troops of the seventeenth century—Siege of Zaragoza 5
Siege of Platæa—Numantia—Tyre—Syracuse—Lines of Circumvallation—Siege of Jerusalem—Of La Réole—Effects of the invention of gunpowder—Siege of Ostend—Magdeburg—Character of the m...
2. CHAPTER XIV.3. CHAPTER XV.Character of Cleon—Blockade and capture of the Lacedæmonians at Pylos—Comparison with the capture of Porto Bello by Admiral Vernon—Greek comedy—Sketch of the Knights of Aristoph...
4. CHAPTER XVI.5. CHAPTER XVII.Sketch of the interval which elapsed between the defeat in Sicily, and the battle of Arginusæ—Battle of Arginusæ—Prosecution and death of the Athenian Generals—Massacre of the D...
6. CHAPTER XVIII.History and character of Socrates—Account of his death—Prosecution of John Huss, and Jerome of Prague—Attempt to re–establish Prelacy in Scotland—Brown—Guthrie—Reformation in En...
7. CHAPTER XIII.Siege of Platæa—Numantia—Tyre—Syracuse—Lines of circumvallation—Siege of Jerusalem—Of La Réole—Effects of the invention of Gunpowder—Siege of Ostend—Magdeburg—Character of the m...
8. CHAPTER XIV.The year which witnessed the unhappy fate of the brave Platæans was made remarkable by the Corcyrean sedition also: on which, as on the plague of Athens, the pen of Thucydides h...
9. CHAPTER XV.Character of Cleon—Blockade and Capture of the Lacedæmonians at Pylos—Comparison with the capture of Porto Bello by Admiral Vernon—Greek comedy—Sketch of the Knights of Aristoph...
10. CHAPTER XVI.We now come to the Sicilian expedition, and request the reader’s patience if we dwell longer than usual on the closing scene of an undertaking, described by its historian as “th...
11. CHAPTER XVII.Sketch of the interval which elapsed between the defeat in Sicily and the battle of Arginusæ—Battle of Arginusæ—Prosecution and death of the Athenian generals—Massacre of the De...
12. CHAPTER XVIII.History and character of Socrates—Account of his death—Prosecution of John Huss and Jerome of Prague—Attempt to re–establish prelacy in Scotland—Brown—Guthrie—Reformation in Eng...