Definitions

1. A siege is a prolonged military blockade and assault of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition.
2. A siege was a reasonable course of action to minimise casualties and capture the city intact, and in fact it nearly succeeded. (Web site)
3. A siege was set, but the governor of Tell Khalid surrendered upon the arrival of Saladin himself on May 17 before a siege could take place. (Web site)
4. SIEGE is an http regression testing and benchmarking utility.
5. The siege was broken when the forces of eight foreign powers marched from Tientsin and scaled the walls of Peking.

King Baldwin Iii

1. King Baldwin III of Jerusalem marched north to relieve the siege.
2. He united with Conrad III of Germany and King Baldwin III of Jerusalem to lay siege to Damascus; this ended in disaster and the project was abandoned. (Web site)

Ladysmith

1. The Dublin Fusiliers actively took part in the efforts to lift the Siege of Ladysmith, which lasted from 30 October 1899 to 28 February 1900. (Web site)
2. News of the violent deaths of diplomat Mnkonkoni Kunene and several others in time reached the Boer forces involved in the Siege of Ladysmith.

Unsuccessful

1. Louis and Conrad later joined with the army of Jerusalem at the unsuccessful Siege of Damascus in 1148.
2. Mamluk sultan Baibars conducts an unsuccessful siege of the city of Tripoli, and also fails in an attempted naval invasion of Cyprus.
3. Saladin mounted an unsuccessful siege of Kerak in 1183. (Web site)

Sieges

1. The initial German advance into Belgium produced four major sieges, the Battle of Liege, the Battle of Namur, the Siege of Maubeuge and the Siege of Antwerp. (Web site)
2. Sieges in the age of gunpowder The introduction of gunpowder and the use of cannons brought about a new age in siege warfare. (Web site)
3. Sieges in the age of gunpowder The introduction of gunpowder and the use of cannon s brought about a new age in siege warfare.

Present-Day Iran

1. Herat fell to Ahmad after almost a year of bloody siege and conflict, as did also Meshed (in present-day Iran).

Bloody Conflict

1. The city fell to Ahmad Shah in 1750, after almost a year of siege and bloody conflict. (Web site)

Numantia

1. He served at the siege of Numantia in 133 BCE under Scipio Aemilianus, one of the most important men in Rome. (Web site)
2. Additionally, there is evidence that they fought alongside the Vacceos in 151 BC, and helped break the Roman siege of Numantia.
3. In 134 BC, the Consul Scipio Aemilianus finally succeeded in suppressing the rebellion following the successful Siege of Numantia. (Web site)

Carthage

1. At the time of the siege, the city held approximately 40,000 people, though the women and children were evacuated to Carthage, an ancient Phoenician colony. (Web site)
2. Thus the country around Carthage was weak, and the moment a foreign enemy landed in Africa the war was merely a siege of its chief city. (Web site)
3. In the Battle of Carthage the city was stormed after a short siege and completely destroyed, its culture "almost totally extinguished".

Carthaginian Forces

1. During the Siege of Agrigentum, the Carthaginian forces were ravaged by plague and Hannibal Mago died of it.

Trench Warfare

1. He pinned down the Confederate army in the Siege of Petersburg, where the two armies engaged in trench warfare for over nine months. (Web site)
2. Siege warfare Most of the techniques used in trench warfare had existed for years in siege warfare.

Fortifications

1. There was often a double line of fortifications, the inner against the town, and the outer against a force that might attempt to raise the siege. (Web site)
2. The fortifications of the city were rebuilt by the Ottoman Sultan Murad III and were strong enough to withstand a siege by Nadir Shah of Persia, in 1731. (Web site)
3. The universal method for defending against siege is the use of fortifications, principally walls and ditches to supplement natural features.

Muslims

1. During the siege and capture of Jerusalem, Tancred is said to have tried to save hundreds of Muslims by placing them in and on the Temple. (Web site)
2. Facing the crusaders was Saladin's army which, despite many attempts, hadn't managed to break the siege and relieve the 3,000 Muslims inside the Acre castle. (Web site)
3. The defenders of Karak held out for eight months in a prolonged siege before surrendering to the Muslims who, mercifully, allowed them to walk free.

Reinforcements

1. July 02, 1191 A large fleet of English ships arrives at Acre with reinforcements for the siege of the city.
2. Rosecrans, demoralized by his defeat, proved unable to break the siege without reinforcements. (Web site)
3. While the NVA was laying siege at Khe Sanh and Westmoreland correspondingly rushed reinforcements to his besieged troops, the NLF moved into place elsewhere. (Web site)

Command

1. An army under the command of Imagawa Sessai laid siege to the castle where Oda Nobuhiro, Nobuhide's eldest son and the new head of the Oda, was living.
2. Unable to break the siege, Rosecrans was relieved of his command of the Army of the Cumberland on October 19.
3. Taksin hurriedly sent one of his generals Boonma to command the fleet to Bang Kung to relieve the siege.

Main Army

1. The British fought the main army of the rebels near Delhi in Badl-ke-Serai and drove them back to Delhi before laying a siege on the city.
2. Gaston and Tancred were sent ahead of the main army to occupy Bethlehem, and during the siege of Jerusalem, Gaston was in charge of Godfrey's siege engines.
3. Antony broke off the siege with his main army, leaving his brother Lucius in command there. (Web site)

Israel

1. The Satavahana of Meluhha and The King of Judah then invade Israel, and lay siege to Hoshea in his stronghold at Samaria. (Web site)
2. Under his rule the Assyrians completed the defeat of the Kingdom of Israel, capturing Samaria after a siege of three years and dispersing the inhabitants.
3. No fighting actually took place on Israeli territory, but the shock of the attacks often made it seem in the US media that Israel itself was under siege. (Web site)

Lachish

1. Sennacherib's own chronicles and palace engravings attest to the invasion of Israel, the capture of Lachish and the siege of Jerusalem. (Web site)
2. Lachish was one of the cities recorded in the Bible as being besieged by the king of Babylon at the same time as the siege of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 34:7). (Web site)
3. Siege of Lachish by Sennacherib (2 Kings 18:14, 17), as recorded on the Lachish reliefs. (Web site)

Pyongyang

1. By summer 612, Emperor Yang's forces had Liaodong under siege, while he sent another part of the army, commanded by Yuwen Shu, south toward Pyongyang. (Web site)
2. However, Goguryeo was able to defeat the Sui navy, thus when the Sui's 9 armies finally reached Pyongyang, they didn't have the supplies for a lengthy siege. (Web site)

Tang Forces

1. Meanwhile, Tang forces, under the command of nine generals (with Li Siye having died during the siege), were uncoordinated. (Web site)
2. It was only in 759, when Shi Siming, fought an inconclusive battle near Yecheng that forced Tang forces to withdraw that the siege on Yecheng was lifted. (Web site)

January 1944

1. In January 1944, a Soviet offensive drove off the besieging Germans from the southern outskirts of the city, ending the siege.

Second Siege

1. When the Crusaders broke through during the second siege, which led to the sacking of Constantinople, the guard resisted little and eventually surrendered. (Web site)
2. They laid a second siege in 717 which lasted for one year till 718 but this time too they were unsuccessful.
3. Only later, after the defeat in the second siege of Vienna in 1683 and the Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699, did the Ottoman Empire undeniably decline.

Kerbogha

1. The siege continued, and at the end of May 1098 a Muslim army from Mosul under the command of Kerbogha approached Antioch.
2. He was ill during the second siege of Antioch by Kerbogha which culminated in the discovery of the Holy Lance by a monk named Peter Bartholomew. (Web site)

Suleiman

1. Ousting them, Suleiman installed Zapolya as his vassal in Hungary and launched the famous siege of Vienna, Sept. (Web site)
2. Following a siege of five months with brutal encounters, Rhodes capitulated and Suleiman allowed the Knights of Rhodes to depart. (Web site)
3. In 1565, these knights broke the siege of Malta by Suleiman the Magnificent.

Buda

1. In the capture of Buda, Eugene was wounded, but continued to serve until the siege of Belgrade where he was more seriously wounded.
2. In 1541 the Habsburgs once again engaged in conflict with the Ottomans, attempting to lay siege to Buda. (Web site)
3. The medieval palace was destroyed in the great siege of 1686 when Buda was captured by the allied Christian forces.

Lille

1. Marlborough acquiesced and resolved upon the siege of Vauban 's great fortress, Lille. (Web site)

Rochelle

1. France was once again involved in her own instabilities (the famous Siege of La Rochelle began in 1627), and Spain's eminence seemed clear. (Web site)

Yorktown

1. The Battle of Yorktown or Siege of Yorktown was fought from April 5 to May 4, 1862, as part of the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War.
2. Washington hurriedly moved his troops from New York, and a combined Franco-American force of 17,000 men commenced the siege of Yorktown in early October.
3. His hopes for a quick advance foiled, McClellan ordered his army to prepare for a siege of Yorktown. (Web site)

Ottoman Army

1. In March 1453, an Ottoman army of 85,000 men led by Sultan Mehmet II laid siege to the city.
2. A True and Exact Relation Of the Raising of the siege of Vienna And the Victory obtained over the Ottoman Army, the 12th of September 1683. (Web site)

Kut

1. The other major siege outside Europe during the First World War was in Mesopotamia, at the Siege of Kut.
2. In Mesopotamia, by contrast, after the disastrous Siege of Kut (1915–16), British Empire forces reorganized and captured Baghdad in March 1917.

Seagal

1. Morris Chestnut (who also starred with Seagal in UNDER SIEGE 2: DARK TERRITORY) brings some style and some coolness to the lead villain.
2. After the success of Under Siege, Seagal made his directorial debut with On Deadly Ground (1994) in which he also starred, alongside Michael Caine.

Sebastopol

1. Each Victoria Cross is cast from the bronze of cannons captured from the Russians during the siege of Sebastopol, during the Crimean War. (Web site)
2. I then set about researching the life of this Irish man, who had taken part in the siege of the Russian Naval Base of Sebastopol during the Crimean War.
3. He took part in the battles of Balaclava and Inkerman, the siege and fall of Sebastopol, taking part in the sortie on 26th October. (Web site)

Sevastopol

1. She participated in many important naval battles, including the Siege of Sevastopol (1854-1855) during the Crimean War (1854-1856). (Web site)
2. The European allies landed in Crimea and laid siege to the well-fortified Russian base at Sevastopol.
3. The Russian Black Sea Fleet ships were sunk in Sevastopol, and the European allies landed in Crimea, laying siege to a well-fortified base at Sevastopol'. (Web site)

Rome

1. Then came that year of misfortune, 410, when the Goths laid siege to Rome for months, devastated the surrounding country, and plundered the city itself.
2. Such was the state of Rome under the reign of Honorius; at the time when the Gothic army formed the siege, or rather the blockade, of the city.
3. Olybrius was in Constantinople at the time of the siege of Rome as noted by John Malalas. (Web site)

Alesia

1. The Siege of Alesia which took place in September 52 BC is one of the most famous investments in history.
2. On the next day, the Gallic leader presented his arms to Julius Caesar, putting an end to the siege of Alesia. (Web site)

Amalric

1. Lacking the resources to maintain a prolonged siege of Cairo against the combined forces of Nur ad-Din and Shawar, Amalric retreated. (Web site)

Damietta

1. The crusaders accordingly landed at Damietta in May, 1218, and, after a siege marked by many deeds of heroism, took the city by storm, 5 November, 1219. (Web site)
2. That year, Manuel sent a large Byzantine fleet of some 300 ships to assist Amalric, and the town of Damietta was placed under siege. (Web site)
3. In 1216 was named Bishop of Acre and was heavily involved in the Fifth Crusade, participating in the siege of Damietta from 1218 to 1220.

Ottomans

1. It was evacuated in 1470 as the Ottomans began the Siege of Rhodes and control passed to Suleiman I in 1522 when Rhodes fell. (Web site)
2. In 1480, the Ottomans unsuccessfully laid siege to Rhodes Island, the stronghold of the Knights of St. John. (Web site)
3. By sheer tenacity, the city withheld the siege, and the Ottomans were forced to retreat. (Web site)

Venetians

1. The Doge raised the siege and sailed to Acre, where it was decided that together the Franks and Venetians would besiege Tyre.
2. February 14, 1124 Crusaders, mostly Franks and Venetians, begin a siege of Tyre.
3. The Venetians were then forced to lift the siege and retreat to the Hexamilion and to Nauplia (Nafplion).

Surrendering

1. He had after the siege of Miletus disbanded the Graeco- Macedonian fleet, surrendering for the time all attempts to challenge the command of the Aegean.
2. Hoping for assistance from the Franks, the Lucchesi obstinately resisted the attack of Narses, surrendering only after a siege of seven months (553). (Web site)
3. Halil Kut forced the British to choose between starving or surrendering, though in the mean time they would try to lift the siege. (Web site)

Defenders

1. The city was at this point under Egyptian control; its defenders were numerous and well prepared for a siege. (Web site)
2. The following year the Siege of Athlone saw a further assault in which the troops of King William III eventually prevailed against the outnumbered defenders. (Web site)
3. In response the Order, with only 8,000 defenders, drove the Ottoman Turks away after a hard siege of several months. (Web site)

Garrison

1. By 1592, the Spanish had a garrison in Paris and Rouen was helped out in the same way by the Spanish when Henry laid siege to that city. (Web site)
2. In the course of the siege almost 30,000 of the garrison and citizens of Saragossa (from a total of 32,000) perished instead of surrendering the city.
3. Caesar received word that additional warriors were crossing the Rhine to siege the Sequani town of Vesontio, so he made haste to garrison the town. (Web site)

Vicksburg

1. The Siege of Vicksburg in 1863 represented the first large-scale use of trench warfare during the war.
2. Confederate forces marched out of Jackson to break the siege of Vicksburg in early July 1863.
3. Following the failure of the May 22 assault, Grant realized that Vicksburg could not be taken by storm and decided to lay siege to the city.

Arqa

1. Godfrey, Robert, Tancred, and Gaston arrived at Arqa in March, but the siege continued.
2. The siege of Arqa lasted until May 13 when the crusaders left having captured nothing.

Tripoli

1. The siege of Arqa, a town outside Tripoli, lasted longer than Raymond had hoped. (Web site)
2. The text not only describes the siege of Acre, but also the fall of Tripoli and other significant events during this time. (Web site)
3. He was born 1273 at Damascus and died in 1331 He took part in the siege of Tripoli in 1289 and the siege of Acre in 1291.

Castle

1. Isaac resisted for some time from the castles of Pentadactylos, but finally surrendered after the siege of his castle of Kantara.
2. Despite the fall of the town to the Welsh, the castle resisted the siege for three weeks until an English army arrived to give assistance. (Web site)
3. However, the lack of siege weapons, the steep slope up to the walls and the formidable fortifications made taking the castle by force impossible. (Web site)

Kerak

1. The Siege of Kerak is waged between the Ayyubids and the Crusaders, in which regent Guy of Lusignan refuses to fight. (Web site)
2. But it was his military hesitance at the siege of Kerak which disillusioned the king with him. (Web site)
3. Knowing he risked being crushed between the Royal army and the walls of Kerak, he lifted the siege. (Web site)

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