Historical Parallels, vol. 3 (of 3)
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 mercenary troops of the seventeenth century—Siege of Zaragoza 5