Chapter XXVI: Siege of Port Arthur (1904)

Port Arthur--Its hotel life--Stoessel not popular--Fleet surprised--Shelled at twelve miles--Japanese pickets make a mistake--Wounded cannot be brought in--Polite even under the knife--The etiquette of the bath--The unknown death--Kondrachenko, the real hero--The white flag at last--Nogi the modest--“Banzai!”--Effect of good news on the wounded--The fleet sink with alacrity 341-352

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

THE SALLY FROM THE FORT AT KUMASSI (see p. 294) _Frontispiece_

THE LAST SIEGE OF GIBRALTAR BY FRANCE AND SPAIN _To face p._ 26

THE NIGHT ASSAULT OF CIUDAD RODRIGO " 56

THE ESCALADE OF THE CASTLE " 66

THE LAST OF AN ARMY " 96

GETTING RID OF HIS CAPTORS " 128

A DARING DEED: BLOWING UP THE CASHMERE GATE, DELHI " 154

THE LIGHTER SIDE OF WAR AT LUCKNOW " 180

SHOT DOWN BY THEIR FELLOW-CITIZENS " 216

A DUEL BETWEEN A TEXAN AND A GERMAN " 224

THE BALLOON POST USED DURING THE SIEGE OF PARIS " 244

A STRANGE WEAPON OF OFFENCE " 282

THE BOERS, TAKEN BY SURPRISE, WERE UNSTEADY AND
PANIC-STRUCK " 304

A BRITISH AMAZON AT MAFEKING " 308

A RUSSIAN TORPEDO-BOAT DESTROYER ELUDING THE JAPANESE
FLEET " 344

A HUMAN LADDER " 348

THE ROMANCE OF MODERN SIEGES