I think that Siege is barbaric. There is a better way like use hostages to make them surrender and I and not saying that's the right thing to do but people where forced to eat rats. Rats caused some of the most deadly plagues ever and you had to eat them to survive.
Siege was barbaric, but do you think if the north simply took some hostages the south may surrender? The north wanted to win and they couldn't do it without forcing surrender.
ReplyDeleteSiege was a war strategy to end the south. This was a smart move by the union.
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