{"id":40251,"date":"2022-05-19T06:30:23","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T18:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=40251"},"modified":"2022-05-15T18:01:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T06:01:01","slug":"qa-thursdays-reprised-4-lindsays-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2022\/05\/19\/qa-thursdays-reprised-4-lindsays-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&#038;A Thursdays Reprised #4: Lindsay\u2019s Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Currently I\u2019m reprising a Q&amp;A series from 2019, which began on <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2022\/03\/31\/qa-thursdays-reprised\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 31\u00a0<\/a> &#8212; and today&#8217;s refeatured question came from Lindsay. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29607\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29607\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29607\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Daughter-of-Blood-by-Helen-Lowe-190x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Daughter-of-Blood-by-Helen-Lowe-190x300.png 190w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Daughter-of-Blood-by-Helen-Lowe-95x150.png 95w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Daughter-of-Blood-by-Helen-Lowe-650x1024.png 650w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Daughter-of-Blood-by-Helen-Lowe.png 742w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-29607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UK\/AU\/NZ<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Lindsay:<\/strong> <em>Which Battles Did You Research When You were Writing The Siege of the Camp?<\/em><\/span> (Ed: In <em>Daughter of Blood<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/wallofnight.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Wall Of Night<\/a> Book 3.)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Helen:<\/strong> Well, I did a LOT of research, I can tell you that \u2014 most of which never made it into the book but was pretty fascinating stuff. Some of it was on pre-modern warfare generally, not just sieges, although I gradually honed in on those. In terms of specific sieges, I focused on those where the defenders were badly situated defensively, poorly supplied, and\/or outnumbered:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">the siege of the Lucknow Residency during the Indian Mutiny (also considered the first war for Indian independence from British rule) of 1857;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">the siege of the Kabul Residency in 1879, during the Second Anglo-Afghan War; <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">the defence of Rorke\u2019s Drift in 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War; and<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">the siege of the Legation Quarter in Peking during 1900, and also the distinct but concurrent siege of the Beitang, the North Cathedral of the Roman Catholic Church.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">I also looked at the siege of Metz (1552-3), and similar sieges of that era, particularly in terms of the effects of disease on siege warfare; the Roman approach to fortified camps; and several engagements of the American frontier in terms of assaults and sieges on scantily fortified positions and the tactics used by both the attacking and defending forces.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29736\" style=\"width: 196px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29736\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29736\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Daughter-of-Blood_Front-Cover-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"daughter-of-blood-by-helen-lowe\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Daughter-of-Blood_Front-Cover-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Daughter-of-Blood_Front-Cover-93x150.jpg 93w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Daughter-of-Blood_Front-Cover.jpg 409w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-29736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">USA<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently I\u2019m reprising a Q&amp;A series from 2019, which began on March 31\u00a0 &#8212; and today&#8217;s refeatured question came from Lindsay. \ud83d\ude00 Lindsay: Which Battles Did You Research When You were Writing The Siege of the Camp? (Ed: In Daughter of Blood, The Wall Of Night Book 3.) Helen: Well, I did a LOT of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books","category-funstuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40251"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40254,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40251\/revisions\/40254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}