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ershadowed by the second battle of Manassas. We have this day to record an achievement which throws them all in the shade. An army besieging another army in a position strong by nature and strongly fortified, has been assailed at the same time by a third army, and has not only succeeded in defeating that third army with great slaughter, but has, on the same day, compelled the besieged army to surrender at discretion. We remember but three exploits similar to this. One of them was that of Julius Cæsar at Alesia — incomparably the greatest of all that mighty General's achievements — where, with 60,000 men, he kept in an equal number who were besieged in the town, and defeated, with enormous slaughter, 250,000 who attempted to relieve them. Another was that of Marino Faliero at the siege of Zara, where he kept in the besieged, and defeated a Hungarian army of 80,000 men. The third was that of Prince Eugene at Belgrade. As far as we can understand the operations, from the very im