The Siege of StrasbourgWhen war broke out between France and Prussia in the summer of 1870, one of the first targets of the invading German armies was Strasbourg. From August 15 to September 27, Prussian forces bombarded this border city, killing hundreds of citizens, wounding thousands more, and destroying many historic buildings and landmarks. For six terror filled weeks, "the city at the crossroads" became the epicenter of a new kind of warfare whose indiscriminate