Ravenna 315 Rhodes 162 Rimini 258 Rochelle, La 426 Rome 58 Romorantin 425 Samaria 55 Saragossa 561 Sardis 111 Schweidnitz 522 Sebastopol 600 Sebastian, St. 585 Seringapatam 559 Sinope 236 Stralsund 517 Syracuse 138 Tarentum 196 Thebes, Bœotia 6 Thebes, Palestine 9 Toulouse 233 Tournai 289 Troy 10 Troyes 433 Tunis 197 Turin 507 Tyre 90 Utica 210 Vachtendonck 500 Valenciennes 469 Veii 124 Vienna 451 Verchères 516 Weinsberg 395 THE GREAT SIEGES OF HISTORY. Of all the collisions between the members of the human race for the furtherance of ambition, the maintenance of liberty, or the assertion of disputed rights, we consider the prominent sieges of history to be the most interesting and instructive. We know of no situation in which the higher virtues have been put to a severer test; in which courage, firmness, endurance, patriotism, fidelity, humanity, have shone with purer and more unmitigated lustre. In the pages we are about to lay before our readers will be found accounts of actions and sufferings of which the uninitiated in history can scarcely suppose their fellow-men to be capable: not brilliant actions of short-lived devotion performed before applauding multitudes, not torments endured with hopes of celestial recompense, but protracted, continuous exertions, amidst privations, disease, famine, and death in every hideous shape, prompted by love of country, or fidelity to a cause honestly embraced.