It had lasted a hundred and five days.

The garrison had been reduced from about seven thousand effective men to about three thousand.

The loss of the besiegers cannot be precisely ascertained.
Walker estimated it at eight thousand men.

It is certain from the despatches of Avaux that the regiments which returned from the blockade had been so much thinned that many of them were not more than two hundred strong.

Of thirty-six French gunners who had superintended the cannonading, thirty-one had been killed or disabled, [255] The means both of attack and of defence had undoubtedly been such as would have moved the great warriors of the Continent to laughter; and this is the very circumstance which gives so peculiar an interest to the history of the contest.