- Das Belagerungsspiel. Le jeu de siege. The Game of Siege. Germany, between 1830 and 1850.
- Curatorial note:
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The Belagerungsspiel was probably the most popular war game of the 1800s. A descendant of Fox and Geese, it is played on a cruciform game board: the upper arm represents a fortress and the other three the field before it. The two players’ forces are unequal: two officers defend the fortress against twenty-four attacking rebels. The rebels must box in the officers before their superior forces are weakened by capture. Today this game is known as Asalto. Modern boards and boxes are plain, whereas nineteenth-century ones were typically illustrated with scenes of warfare. The title in three languages indicates that this set was of German manufacture for European distribution.
- Collections:
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- Cotsen Children's Library
- Welcome Additions
- Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
- Lloyd E. Cotsen
- Cotsen (Welcome Additions Exhibition)
- Title:
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- Belagerungspiel collection [games]
- Language:
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- German
- Call number:
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- Toys 149981
- Format:
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- Visual material
- Type:
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- Puzzles and games
- Subject:
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- War games—Germany—Specimens
- Puzzles and games
- Location:
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- Special Collections Toys 149981
- Identifier:
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- ark:/88435/6t053k92g
- Edm rights:
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- No Known Copyright
- Contents:
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- Belagerung von Paris = Siege of Paris = Siege de Paris
- Grosse Belagerungspiel
- Festungsspiel
- Jeux de societe
- Belagerungsspiel = Jeu d'assaut = Game of Assault
- Festungs Krieg
- Grosse Festungsspiel
- Jeu d'assaut = Belagerungsspiel = Game of Assault
- Prinz Eugen Belagerungspiel = Game of Assault = Jeu de siege
- Belagering-spel
- Jeu d'assaut
- Neues Belagerungs oder Festungsspiel = New Siege or Fortress Game = Nouveau jeu de Siege et de Bataille = Nuovo Giouco d'Assiedo e di Battaglia
- Belagerungsspiel
- Belagerungspiel = jeu a'assaut=game of assault
- Belagerungs-spiel
- Festungs- und Belagerungs Spiel = Jeu de la fortresse = vestig en belegeringspeil = Var es Ostromjatek
- Grosse Belagerungsspiel
- Festungs- Und Belagerungs-Spiel
- Belagerungs- Spiel = Belegering Spel
- Belagerungs Spiel
- Legespiel: Belagerung und Ersturmung einer Festung im Russisch-Turkisch Krieg 1854
- Belagerungs-Spiel = jeu de siege = Game of Siege
- Ganz neues Belagerungsspiel = Jeu d'assiege tout nouveau
- Belagerungspiel = jeu d'assaut = game of assault
- Belagerungs - Spiel = jeu de siege = game of besieging
- Belagerungs -Spiel
- Figuren zum Belagerungsspiel
- Belagerungs-Spiel fur den Schutzengraben
- Friegue das Kriegsspiel um festung und fahne
- Range label:
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- Logical
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