SiegesHere are entered general historical works on sieges. Works on the various sieges of a particular place are entered under this heading with local subdivision. Works on a specific siege of a particular place are entered under the place with the subdivision History -- Siege, [date.] Works on a specific siege of a particular castle, fort, etc., are entered under its name with the subdivision Siege, [date.] Technical military works on siege warfare are entered under Siege warfare. See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.
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Filed under: Sieges- Die wichtigsten schlachten, Belagerungen und berschanzten Lager vom Jahre 1708 bis 1855. Kritisch Bearb. zum studium für officiere aller Waffen (Leipzig, Heidelberg, 1861), by G. Wittje (page images at HathiTrust)
- Relations des principaux siéges faits ou soutenus en Europe par les armées françaises depuis 1792; rédigées par MM. les officiers-généraux et supérieurs du Corps impérial du génie qui en ont conduit l'attaque ou la défense; précédées d'un Précis historique et chronologique des guerres de la France depuis 1792 jusqu'au traité de Presbourg en 1805 (Magimel, 1808), by V.-D. Musset-Pathay (page images at HathiTrust)
- Journals of sieges carried on by the army under the Duke of Wellington, in Spain, during the years 1811 to 1814; with notes and additions; also Memoranda relative to the lines thrown up to cover Lisbon in 1810. (J. Weale, 1846), by John Thomas Jones and H. D. Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
- De Fattaque et de la défense des places (Anselin, 1828), by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, Eléonor Bernard Anne Chiristophe Zoa Dufriche Valazé, A.-M. Augoyat, and Guillaume de La Fon de Boisguérin Deshoulières (page images at HathiTrust)
- Aeneae Commentarius poliorceticus recensuit Arnoldus Hug. (in aedubus B. G. Teubneri, 1874), by Tacticus Aeneas and Arnold Hug (page images at HathiTrust)
- Untersuchungen zur älteren Geschichte des antiken Belagerungsgeschützes. (Junge, 1912), by Martin Pöhlmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Journals of the sieges undertaken by the allies in Spain : in the years 1811 and 1812, with notes (T. Egerton, 1814), by John Thomas Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
- The book of famous seiges (Doubleday, Page & company, 1909), by Tudor Jenks (page images at HathiTrust)
- Histoire du Corps impérial du génie; des siéges et des travaux qu'il a dirigés, et des changemens que l'attaque, la défense, la construction et d'administration des fortresses ont reçus, en France ... Par A. Allent ... 1. ptie., depuis l'origine de la fortification moderne jusqu'à la fin de règne de Louis XIV. (Magimel, 1805), by Pierre Alexandre Joseph Allent (page images at HathiTrust)
- Los sitios de Zaragoza ante el derecho internacional (Tip. de M. Sevilla, 1908), by Miguel Allué Salvador (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Memorial de Cormontaingne pour l'attaque des places; ou, Recueil fait par ce célèbre ingénieur des préceptes et des méthodes qu'il suivoit dans la conduite des sièges ... (G. Decker, 1803), by Louis de Cormontaingne and Henri Jean Baptiste de Bousmard (page images at HathiTrust)
- Rules, chiefly deduced from experiment, for conducting the practical operations of a siege, originally composed for the use of the Royal Engineer Establishment at Chatham (John Weale, 1841), by Charles William Pasley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Daiyōsaisen (Shūbundō, 1914), by Urajirō Matsuhisa (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The romance of modern sieges, describing the personal adventures, resource and daring of besiegers and beseiged in all parts of the world (J. B. Lippincott company; [etc., etc.], 1907), by Edward Gilliat (page images at HathiTrust)
- Nouveau dictionnaire historique des sièges et batailles mémorables, et des combats maritimes les plus fameux, de tous les peuples du monde, anciens et modernes, jusqu'à nos jours. (Gilbert et cie, etc., 1809), by M. M. (page images at HathiTrust)
- The great sieges of history. (G. Routledge & co., 1855), by William Robson and John Gilbert (page images at HathiTrust)
- Aeneae Commentarius poliorceticus (in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1874), by Tacticus Aeneas and Arnold Hug (page images at HathiTrust)
- Lo stvdio del maestro, e bombardiere (Nella nuova stamperia di Nicola Belelli, 1717), by Giovanni Bacella (page images at HathiTrust)
- Siéges et capitulations célebres. (Duquesne, 1872), by A. Andréi (page images at HathiTrust)
- Artillery retrospect of the last great war, 1870 : with its lessons for Canadians (Printed by Middleton & Dawson, at the "Gazette", 1874), by T. Bland Strange (page images at HathiTrust)
- The great sieges of history (Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, 1859), by William Robson (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Great Sieges of History, by William Robson, illust. by John Gilbert (Gutenberg ebook)
- The Romance of Modern Sieges: Describing the personal adventures, resource and daring of besiegers and beseiged in all parts of the world, by Edward Gilliat (Gutenberg ebook)
Filed under: Sieges -- Argentina
Filed under: Sieges -- Belgium
Filed under: Sieges -- Early works to 1800
Filed under: Sieges -- Fiction- Leila: or, The Siege of Granada, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Gutenberg text)
- Love Besieged: A Romance of the Residency in Lucknow (first edition; London: Stanley Paul and Co., 1909), by Charles E. Pearce (HTML with commentary at charlespearce.org)
- The Knight of St. John: A Romance (3 volumes; London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Browne, 1817), by Anna Maria Porter
- The Siege of Malta, by S. Fowler Wright, contrib. by Walter Scott
- The Prince of India: or, Why Constantinople Fell (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1893), by Lew Wallace (illustrated HTML at hiwaay.net)
- The Prince of India: or, Why Constantinople Fell (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, c1921), by Lew Wallace
- The Prince of India: or, Why Constantinople Fell, by Lew Wallace
- The Texan Scouts: A Story of the Alamo and Goliad, by Joseph A. Altsheler
- Leila (A. and W. Galignani and Co., 1838), by Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Charles Heath (page images at HathiTrust)
- The bargain: a historical novel on the defense of Londonderry. (Exposition Press, 1951), by William Schoeler (page images at HathiTrust)
- The siege of Spoleto; a camp-tale of Arlington Heights (P. O'Shea, 1864), by Michael J. A. McCaffery (page images at HathiTrust)
- Twice taken: an historical romance of the maritime British provinces. (Lee and Shepard, 1867), by Charles Winslow Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
- The siege of Vicksburg. (Pratt brothers, 1869), by Maria I. Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
- The blockade of Phalsburg : an episode of the end of the empire (C. Scribner's Sons, 1898), by Erckmann-Chatrian (page images at HathiTrust)
- Naomi : or the last days of Jerusalem, by J. B. Webb (Gutenberg ebook)
- The Fifty-Fourth of July, by Alan Edward Nourse (Gutenberg ebook)
- Zaragoza (in Spanish), by Benito Pérez Galdós (Gutenberg ebook)
- The Gladiators. A Tale of Rome and Judæa, by G. J. Whyte-Melville (Gutenberg ebook)
- Saragossa: A Story of Spanish Valor, by Benito Pérez Galdós, trans. by Minna Caroline Smith (Gutenberg ebook)
- The Captain of the Janizaries: A story of the times of Scanderberg and the fall of Constantinople, by James M. Ludlow (Gutenberg ebook)
- The Blockade of Phalsburg: An Episode of the End of the Empire, by Erckmann-Chatrian (Gutenberg ebook)
- Naomi eli Jerusalemin viimeiset päivät (in Finnish), by J. B. Webb (Gutenberg ebook)
Filed under: Sieges -- France
Filed under: Sieges -- Greece
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