Roman general Marcus Furius Camillus destroying the Etruscan city of Veii or Velus after a decade-long siege in 396 BC. Soldiers use battering rams, siege engines, siege tower, ballista and ladders to storm the city. Camille se rend maitre de Veies que les Romains assiegeoient depuis dix ans. Copperplate engraving by Martin Pöltzel after a design by Gabriel de St. Aubin from Professor Joseph Rudolf Zappe’s Gemalde aus der romischen Geschichte, Pictures of Roman History, Joseph Schalbacher, Vienna, 1800. German edition of Abbe Claude Francois Xavier Millot’s Abrege de l’Histoire Romaine.

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