The Romance of Modern Sieges
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Gilliat Edward. The Romance of Modern Sieges
CHAPTER I. SIEGE OF GIBRALTAR (1779-1782)
CHAPTER II. DEFENCE OF ACRE (1799)
CHAPTER III. THE WOUNDED CAPTAIN IN TALAVERA (1809)
CHAPTER IV. THE CAPTURE OF CIUDAD RODRIGO (1812)
CHAPTER V. THE STORMING OF BADAJOS (1812)
CHAPTER VI. A PRISONER IN ST. SEBASTIAN (1813)
CHAPTER VII. JELLALABAD (1842)
CHAPTER VIII. SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL (1854-1856)
CHAPTER IX. AFTER INKERMANN (1854-55)
CHAPTER X. THE INDIAN MUTINY – DELHI (1857-1858)
CHAPTER XI. THE DEFENCE OF LUCKNOW (31st of May to 25th of September, 1857)
CHAPTER XII. THE RELIEF OF LUCKNOW (1857)
CHAPTER XIII. RUNNING THE BLOCKADE (1861)
CHAPTER XIV. THE FIRST IRONCLADS (1862)
CHAPTER XV. CAPTURE OF NEW ORLEANS (1862)
CHAPTER XVI. THE SIEGE OF RICHMOND (1862 AND 1865)
CHAPTER XVII. THE SIEGE OF PARIS (1870-1871)WITH THE GERMANS OUTSIDE
CHAPTER XVIII. THE SIEGE OF PARIS —ContinuedWITH THE BESIEGED (1870-1871)
CHAPTER XIX. METZ (1870)
CHAPTER XX. PLEVNA (1877)
CHAPTER XXI. SIEGE OF KHARTOUM (1884)
CHAPTER XXII. KUMASSI (1900)
CHAPTER XXIII. MAFEKING (1899-1900)
CHAPTER XXIV. THE SIEGE OF KIMBERLEY (1899-1900)
CHAPTER XXV. THE SIEGE OF LADYSMITH (1899-1900)
CHAPTER XXVI. SIEGE OF PORT ARTHUR (1904)
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Gibraltar! What a thrill does the very name evoke to one who knows a little of English history and England’s heroes! But to those who have the good fortune to steam in a P. and O. liner down the coast of Portugal, and catch sight of the Rock on turning by Cabrita Point into the Bay of Algeciras the thrill of admiration is intensified. For the great Rock lies like a lion couched on the marge of the Mediterranean. It is one of the pillars of Hercules: it commands the entrance to the inner sea.
From 712 to the beginning of the fourteenth century Gibraltar was in the hands of the Saracens; then it fell into the hands of the Spaniards. In 1704, the year of Blenheim, a combined English and Dutch fleet under Sir George Rooke captured the Rock from the Marquis de Salines, and Gibraltar has since then remained in the possession of the English, though several attempts have been made to wrest it from us. Before we follow Captain Drinkwater in some details of the great siege, a few words must be said about the Rock and its defences as they then were.
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Taylor stormed and said he was an English Captain.
“Major, ’tis very possible,” said they; “but your money, your watch, and your linen are never the worse for that; no, nor your wine either!” and the ruthless savages swallowed the wine and the bread which had been portioned out as his sustenance and comfort for the day.
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