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Historical Parallels, vol. 3 (of 3)

Chapter 2: ILLUSTRATIONS.
By Arthur Thomas Malkin
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This volume collects comparative historical essays that juxtapose ancient and early modern episodes of warfare, civil strife, and political trial. It surveys classical sieges such as Plataea, Numantia, Tyre, and Syracuse alongside later examples like Jerusalem, Ostend, Magdeburg, and Zaragoza, analyzing siegecraft, circumvallation, and the impact of gunpowder. It also examines civic disturbances and factional violence, outlines the careers and characters of figures such as Cleon and Socrates, and recounts notable prosecutions, mutinies, and massacres. Throughout, the author draws parallels across eras to illuminate continuities in military practice, civic conflict, and the moral and institutional consequences of political violence.

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 without links has been mantained at the end of third volume.

—The transcriber of this project created the book cover image using the title page of the original book. The image is placed in the public domain.

HISTORICAL
PARALLELS.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

LONDON:
CHARLES KNIGHT & Co., LUDGATE STREET.
1846.

LONDON:
WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS,
STAMFORD STREET.

CONTENTS.

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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.

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Medal, containing a plan of Ostend 5
Battering Ram, from Pompeii 22
Moveable Towers, from ditto 25
Plan of Zaragoza 63
Hippodrome of Constantinople 113
Medal struck after Sir E. Godfrey’s murder 151
Medal of Titus Oates 168
Prow of an ancient vessel found at Genoa 198
Disposition of Athenian fleet at Arginusæ 201
Medal struck after the massacre of the De Witts
Obverse 211
Reverse 212
Bust of Socrates 218
Head of Plato 242

The medals have been engraved from the originals in the British Museum.