TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: —Obvious print and punctuation errors were corrected. —This work is divided into three volumes, all of them available on PG; index is on third volume. It has been splitted replacing every item in the volume where they belong. A full version of index has been mantained at the end of third volume. HISTORICAL PARALLELS. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III. LONDON: CHARLES KNIGHT & Co., LUDGATE STREET. 1846. LONDON: WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET. CONTENTS. Page 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 CHAPTER XIV. Corcyrean sedition—Civil wars of Rome—Jacquerie—Factions of the Circus at Constantinople—Massacre of Sept. 2, 1792 78 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 Aristophanes—Subsequent history of Cleon—Account of the Popish Plot—Character and history of Titus Oates—Mutilation of the Hermæ at Athens 121 CHAPTER XVI. Athenian expedition against Sicily—Siege of Syracuse—Retreat and destruction of the army—Retreat of Ney in Russia—Retreat of Sir John Hawkwood in Italy 171 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 Witts—End of the Peloponnesian war 198 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 England—Account of Rowland Taylor 218 INDEX OF VOLUME III. 285 GENERAL INDEX OF PRINCIPAL SUBJECTS IN ALL VOLUMES 286 ILLUSTRATIONS. Page Medal, containing a plan of Ostend 5 Battering Ram, from Pompeii 22 Moveable Towers, from ditto 25 Plan of Zaragoza 63