Besieged An Encyclopedia of Great Sieges from Ancient Times to the Present

Name: Besieged An Encyclopedia of Great Sieges from Ancient Times to the Present
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ISBN: 9781576071953

ISBN-10: 1576071952

ISBN-13: 9781576071953

Edition: 2001

Authors: Paul K. Davis

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This illustrated work covers sieges that have occurred throughout the world from the earliest times to the present. Some of them turned the tide in a particular war, some were heroic stands against the odds, some brought down governments.

Book details

List price: $96.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, LLC
Publication date: 11/28/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 388
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 1.958



Preface


Jericho (1405 BC)


Troy (1250 BC)


Plataea (429-427 BC)


Syracuse (415-413 BC)


Veii (404-396 BC)


Tyre (332 BC)


Syracuse (213-212 BC)


Carthage (149-146 BC)


Numantia (134-133 BC)


Alesia (52 BC)


Jerusalem (70)


Masada (73-74)


Aquileia (452)


Rome (537-38)


Constantinople (717-18)


Pavia (773-74)


Paris (885-86)


Jerusalem (1099)


Acre (1189-91)


Montsegur (1243-44)


Baghdad (1258)


Hsiang-yang (1268-73)


Calais (1346-47)


Nicopolis (1396)


Orleans (1428-29)


Constantinople (1453)


Granada (1491)


Tenochtitlan (1521)


Rhodes (1522)


Pavia (1524-25)


Vienna (1529)


Boulogne (1544)


Malta (1565)


Chitor Garh (1567-68)


Famagusta (1571)


Antwerp (1584-85)


Kinsale (1601-02)


Osaka (1614-15)


La Rochelle (1627-28)


Magdeburg (1631)


Maastricht (1673)


Vienna (1683)


Londonderry (1689)


St. Augustine (1702)


Turin (1706)


Lille (1708)


Louisbourg (1745)


Arcot (1751)


Fort Niagara (1759)


Quebec (1759)


Havana (1762)


Boston (1775-76)


Quebec (1775-76)


Fort Stanwix (1777)


Gibraltar (1779-83)


Pensacola (1781)


Yorktown (1781)


Toulon (1793)


Genoa (1800)


Badajoz (1812)


Cuautla (1812)


Cartagena (1815)


Athens (Acropolis) (1826-27)


The Alamo (1836)


Rome (1849)


Sevastopol (1854-55)


Delhi (1857)


Gaeta (1860-61)


Puebla (1863)


Vicksburg (1863)


Petersburg (1864-65)


Fort Fisher (1864-65)


Humaita (1867-68)


Paris (1870-71)


Plevna (1877)


Khartoum (1884-85)


Chitral (1895)


Manila (1898)


Mafeking (1899-1900)


Peking (1900)


Port Arthur (1904-05)


Liege (1914)


Kut-al-Amara (1915-16)


Madrid (1936-39)


Bilbao (1937)


Malta (1940-42)


Tobruk (1941)


Leningrad (1941-44)


Sevastopol (1941-42)


Singapore (1942)


Stalingrad (1942-43)


Monte Cassino (1944)


Imphal (1944)


Dien Bien Phu (1953-54)


Quemoy (Kinmen) (1958-59)


Khe Sanh (1968)


Beirut (1982)


Basra (1982-87)


Sarajevo (1991-95)


Grozny (1994-95)


Glossary


Index