Named Entity Results, Caesaraugusta (Spain)

Vicksburg and Saragossa. Our contemporary of the Whig seems disposed to disparage the defence of Vicksburg, contemptuously, as it seems to us, remarking that Vicksburg "was no Saragossa." True enough Vicksburg was an open town, full of wood and brick houses, whose walls, according to the modern fashion, were not greatly thickSaragossa." True enough Vicksburg was an open town, full of wood and brick houses, whose walls, according to the modern fashion, were not greatly thicker than egg shells, and could be easily penetrated by the smallest piece of artillery. Saragossa was the reverse of all this. Her houses were built of huge blocks of solid stone, and were, each of itself, a fortress capable of withstanding the fire of a twelve pounder. The roofs were flat, the windows all walled up, and the wallSaragossa was the reverse of all this. Her houses were built of huge blocks of solid stone, and were, each of itself, a fortress capable of withstanding the fire of a twelve pounder. The roofs were flat, the windows all walled up, and the walls all cut into port holes. The squares were so many islands of houses. The streets had been undermined and cut into galleries, so that there was a communication all through. Above, passages were cut through the walls of the houses, so as to permit a communication in that quarter, and when they came to a street they had only to d