siege-matters

Updated: May 26, 2025

We outnumber them, but as to trying fight in any form? Zweibruck leaves Maguire an additional 10,000; every help and encouragement to Maguire; whose garrison is now 14,000: 'Be of courage, Excellenz Maguire! Nobody is better skilled in siege-matters.

Thomas Carlyle - History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20