The Romance of Modern Sieges Describing the personal adventures, resource and daring of besiegers and beseiged in all parts of the world

The position of the Rock--State of defence--Food-supply--Rodney brings relief--Fire-ships sent in--A convoy in a fog--Heavy guns bombard the town--Watching the cannon-ball--Cata...

Jaffa stormed by Napoleon--Sir Sidney Smith hurries to Acre--Takes a convoy--How the French procured cannon-balls--The Turks fear the mines--A noisy sortie--Fourteen assaults--A...

Talavera between two fires--Captain Boothby wounded--Brought into Talavera--The fear of the citizens--The surgeons’ delay--Operations without chloroform--The English retire--Fre...

Rescue of wounded men--A forlorn hope--Fire-balls light up the scene--A mine explodes--Partial failure of the English--Escalade of the castle--Pat’s humour and heroism--Saving a...

The _coup de grâce_--The hospital--A cruel order--An attempt at escape--Removed to the castle--The English at the breach--Many are wounded--French ladies sleep in the open--A ve...

Position of the town--Sale’s brigade rebuilds the defences--A sortie--Bad news--A queer noise--A ruse that did not succeed--The only survivor comes in--Story of a massacre--The...

The Mutiny begins--A warning from a sepoy--A near thing--A noble act of a native officer--In camp at Delhi with no kit--A plan that failed--Our first check--Wilson in command--S...

North _v._ South--A new President hates slavery--Port Sumter is bombarded--Ladies on the house-top--Niggers don’t mind shells--A blockade-runner comes to Oxford--The _Banshee_ s...

Will they sink or swim?--Captain Ericsson, the Swede--The _Merrimac_ raised and armoured--The _Monitor_ built by private venture--_Merrimac_ surprises Fort Monroe--The _Cumberla...

New Orleans and its forts--Farragut despises craven counsel--The mortar-fleet in disguise--Fire-rafts rush down--A week of hot gun-fire--A dash through the defences--The _Varuna...

Fair Oaks a drawn battle--Robert Lee succeeds Johnston--Reforms in the army--Humours of the sentinels--Chaffing the niggers--Their idea of liberty--The pickets chum together--St...

The Germans invest Paris--Trochu’s sortie fails--The English ambulance welcomed--A Prince’s visit to the wounded--In the snow--Madame Simon--A brave Lieutenant--Piano and jam--T...

Moods in Paris--The Empress escapes--Taking down Imperial flags--Playing dominoes under fire--Cowards branded--Balloon post--Return of the wounded--French numbed by cold--The la...

Metz surrounded--Taken for a spy--Work with an ambulance--Fierce Prussians rob an old woman--Attempt to leave Metz--Refusing an honour--The _cantinière’s_ horse--The grey pet of...

An English boy as Turkish Lieutenant--A mêlée--Wounded by a horseman--Takes letter to Russian camp--The Czar watches the guns--Skobeleff’s charge--The great Todleben arrives--Sk...

Gordon invited to the Soudan--The Mahdi--Chinese Gordon--His religious feeling--Not supported by England--Arabs attack--Blacks as cowards--Pashas shot--The _Abbas_ sent down wit...

The Governor’s visit--Pageant of Kings--Evil omens--The Fetish Grove--The fort--Loyal natives locked out--A fight--King Aguna’s triumph--Relief at last--Their perils--Saved by a...

Snyman begins to fire--A flag of trace--Midnight sortie--The dynamite trolley--Kaffirs careless--A cattle raid--Eloff nearly takes Mafeking--Is taken himself instead--The relief...

The diamond-mines--Cecil Rhodes comes in--Streets barricaded--Colonel Kekewich sends out the armoured train--Water got from the De Beers Company’s mines--A job lot of shells--De...

Port Arthur--Its hotel life--Stoessel not popular--Fleet surprised--Shelled at twelve miles--Japanese pickets make a mistake--Wounded cannot be brought in--Polite even under the...

The position of the Rock--State of defence--Food-supply--Rodney brings relief--Fire-ships sent in--A convoy in a fog--Heavy guns bombard the town--Watching the cannon-ball--Cata...

Jaffa stormed by Napoleon--Sir Sidney Smith hurries to Acre--Takes a convoy--How the French procured cannon-balls--The Turks fear the mines--A noisy sortie--Fourteen assaults--A...

Talavera between two fires--Captain Boothby wounded--Brought into Talavera--The fear of the citizens--The surgeons’ delay--Operations without chloroform--The English retire--Fre...

After Talavera Sir Arthur Wellesley became Lord Wellington; he was opposed by Soult, Marmont, and Masséna. On the 1st of January Wellington crossed the Agueda, and advanced to t...

Rescue of wounded men--A forlorn hope--Fire-balls light up the scene--A mine explodes--Partial failure of the English--Escalade of the castle--Pat’s humour and heroism--Saving a...

The _coup de grâce_--The hospital--A cruel order--An attempt at escape--Removed to the castle--The English at the breach--Many are wounded--French ladies sleep in the open--A ve...

Position of the town--Sale’s brigade rebuilds the defences--A sortie--Bad news--A queer noise--A ruse that did not succeed--The only survivor comes in--Story of a massacre--The...

The Crimean War, fought between Russia on the one hand and England, France, Turkey, and Sardinia on the other, consisted mainly in the Siege of Sebastopol, a strong fortified po...

The Battle of Inkermann was fought on the 5th of November, 1854, in a thick fog. It began very early in the morning with a surprise, and developed into a series of desperate dee...

The Mutiny begins--A warning from a sepoy--A near thing--A noble act of a native officer--In camp at Delhi with no kit--A plan that failed--Our first check--Wilson in command--S...

For about ten days previous to the outbreak at Lucknow daily reports were made that an _émeute_ was intended, and Sir Henry Lawrence, the brother of Sir John Lawrence, had order...

“I had enlisted in the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders to go to India to put down the Mutiny,” writes Mr. Forbes-Mitchell, an old friend of the author. “We reached Cawnpore on the 2...

North _v._ South--A new President hates slavery--Fort Sumter is bombarded--Ladies on the house-top--Niggers don’t mind shells--A blockade-runner comes to Oxford--The _Banshee_ s...

Will they sink or swim?--Captain Ericsson, the Swede--The _Merrimac_ raised and armoured--The _Monitor_ built by private venture--_Merrimac_ surprises Fort Monroe--The _Cumberla...

New Orleans and its forts--Farragut despises craven counsel--The mortar-fleet in disguise--Fire-rafts rush down--A week of hot gun-fire--A dash through the defences--The _Varuna...

Fair Oaks a drawn battle--Robert Lee succeeds Johnston--Reforms in the army--Humours of the sentinels--Chaffing the niggers--Their idea of liberty--The pickets chum together--St...

The Germans invest Paris--Trochu’s sortie fails--The English ambulance welcomed--A Prince’s visit to the wounded--In the snow--Madame Simon--A brave Lieutenant--Piano and jam--T...

Moods in Paris--The Empress escapes--Taking down Imperial flags--Playing dominoes under fire--Cowards branded--Balloon post--Return of the wounded--French numbed by cold--The la...

Metz surrounded--Taken for a spy--Work with an ambulance--Fierce Prussians rob an old woman--Attempt to leave Metz--Refusing an honour--The _cantinière’s_ horse--The grey pet of...

An English boy as Turkish Lieutenant--A mêlée--Wounded by a horseman--Takes letter to Russian camp--The Czar watches the guns--Skobeleff’s charge--The great Todleben arrives--Sk...

Gordon invited to the Soudan--The Mahdi--Chinese Gordon--His religious feeling--Not supported by England--Arabs attack--Blacks as cowards--Pashas shot--The _Abbas_ sent down wit...

The Governor’s visit--Pageant of Kings--Evil omens--The Fetish Grove--The fort--Loyal natives locked out--A fight--King Aguna’s triumph--Relief at last--Their perils--Saved by a...

Snyman begins to fire--A flag of truce--Midnight sortie--The dynamite trolley--Kaffirs careless--A cattle raid--Eloff nearly takes Mafeking--Is taken himself instead--The relief...

The diamond-mines--Cecil Rhodes comes in--Streets barricaded--Colonel Kekewich sends out the armoured train--Water got from the De Beers Company’s mines--A job lot of shells--De...

Ladysmith, where Sir George White and his men detained the Boers so long, is a scattered town lying on a lake-like plain, and surrounded by an amphitheatre of rocky hills. To th...

Port Arthur--Its hotel life--Stoessel not popular--Fleet surprised--Shelled at twelve miles--Japanese pickets make a mistake--Wounded cannot be brought in--Polite even under the...