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The Daily Dispatch: September 26, 1862., [Electronic resource], Interesting incidents. (search)
surrendered at Ulm, but the less on the part of the victors was, in the various actions that preceded the surrender, at least 2,000.--Mantua surrendered with 12,000--about the came number having died within the walls. But it cost twelve pitched battles and sixty combat, besides a siege of six months, to reduce it. Dantzie surrendered after a siege of several months, during which the garrison was reduced from 16,000 to 9,000 men; but it cost the besiegers the lives of several thousand men. Badajoz was taken by storm; but the victors lost 5,000 men. Saragossa was taken after a succession of murderous combat, running through sixty days, and scarcely ever ceasing for a moment; but the French lost half their army in the enterprise, while the inhabitants lost 54,000 persons of all ages. Sebastopol was carried by storm, after a siege of eleven months, during which it is said that several hundred thousand human beings lost their lives. But the capture of Harper's Ferry was effected with t