Word Finder - besieged

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To beset or surround with armed forces for the purpose of compelling to surrender, to lay siege to, beleaguer.

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To beleaguer, to vex, to lay siege to, to beset.

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To assail or ply, as with requests or demands.

Corfu was besieged, but unsuccessfully.

In 1642 York was garrisoned by Royalists and besieged by the parliament.

It was many times besieged by Poles, Hungarians, Tatars and Turks.

Kalinjar town, then the capital, was unsuccessfully besieged by Mahmud of Ghazni in A.D.

Belgrade was besieged and captured, a conquest which Mahommed II.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Janissaries rose by night and besieged the house of the grand vizier, who eventually blew himself up in the arsenal.

Alessandria was founded in 1168 by the inhabitants of the district in order to defend themselves against the marquis of Monferrato and the town of Pavia, at whose request it was besieged in 1174 by Frederick Barbarossa for six months, but without success.

But after* the water-supply of the garrison had been cut off, the besieged were forced to capitulate, on the 11th of July 1648, on the condition of surrendering up the three chief defenders of the castle.

But the city was vigorously besieged by the Brazilians by land, and finally the Portuguese were obliged to re-embark on the 2nd of July 1823.

The besieged had suffered greatly from lack of food.

The Amir Abu Yakub Yusef besieged Tlemcen in the early years of the 14th century.

It was besieged during the wars of 1599 and 1647, and by Cromwell.

It was besieged in 1346, after the battle of Crecy, by Edward III.

In 1148 the town was besieged and captured by Roger I.

Having taken Farama (Pelusium), he advanced to Misr, north of the ancient Memphis, and besieged it and the strong fortress of Babylon for seven months.

He was then sent into the north-western counties, and besieged and took Carlisle.

It was besieged by the Etruscans in 311 -10 B.C., but not taken.

In 1647 it was unsuccessfully besieged by the Turks.

Saladin besieged it unsuccessfully in 1182.

In 1647 it was ineffectually besieged by the Swedes.

He united once more the dominions of Charlemagne; but he disgraced the imperial throne by his feebleness, and was incapable of using his (884-888.) immense army to defend Paris when it was besieged by the Normans.

The king, melancholy spectacle as he was, seemed indeed to suit that tragic hour when Orleans, the last bulwark of the south, was besieged by the earl of Salisbury, now roused from inactivity (1428).

He was the son of Tellis and Argileonis, and won his first laurels by the relief of Methone, which was besieged by the Athenians (431 B.C.).

This would be the case in a besieged city or a nation using the food supply to keep its citizenry in check.

William besieged Gerberoi in 1079, and was wounded in single combat by his son.

Meanwhile Siena was vigorously besieged, and its inhabitants, sacrificing everything for their beloved city, maintained a most heroic defence.

The English under Lord Lake captured the fort of Dig and besieged Bharatpur, but were compelled to raise the siege after four attempts at storming.

There Heracleon, the court favourite and murderer of Antiochus Grypus, was born and made himself a principality (96 B.C.); and there the son of the latter king besieged his brother Philip in the last struggle for the heritage of Seleucus.

The Jacobites unsuccessfully besieged it in 1715 and 1746.

In 1648 and 1655 it was besieged by the Cossacks, and in 1672 by the Turks.

In Natal practically the whole of the available defence force was swallowed up by the steady success of the invasion; on the western frontier two British towns were isolated and besieged; and Boer commandos were on the point of invading Cape Colony, where the Dutch population seemed on the verge of rebellion.

In 310 Agathocles, defeated and besieged in Syracuse, took the desperate resolve of breaking through the blockade and attacking the enemy in Africa.

In 1076, having plotted against Duke Hoel of Brittany, he was besieged at Dol, and the Conqueror came to Hoel's aid; but Ralph finally made his peace.

The portcullis was drawn up, and the besieged issued forth against the rebels, who were soon forced to flee.

Unsuccessfully besieged by the Turks in 1552, it was captured by them in the following year after a heroic resistance.

Pearson was besieged by the Zulus in 1879, and was laid out in 1883.

In 1754 Prome was besieged by the king of Pegu, who was again defeated by Alompra, and the war was transferred from the upper provinces to the mouths of the navigable rivers, and the numerous creeks and canals which intersect the lower country.

In the meantime the Siamese revolted, and while the Burman army was marching against them, the Peguan soldiers who had been incorporated in it rose against their companions, and commencing an indiscriminate massacre, pursued the Burman army to the gates of Rangoon, which they besieged, but were unable to capture.

Totila besieged Florence in 542, but was repulsed by the imperial garrison under Justin, and later it was occupied by the Goths.

He besieged Florence without success, and died of disease in 1313.

On the 26th of July 1343, the citizens rose in arms, demanded the duke's abdication, and besieged him in the palace.

The next year that city, then ruled by Giovanni Gambacorti, was besieged by the Florentines, who blockaded the mouth of the Arno.

Malatesta contributed to the defeat by preventing a simultaneous attack by the besieged.

In 1648 the Parliamentary forces besieged Millom Castle, and early in the 19th century its park was converted into farmland.

The duke of Burgundy, besieged in Arras, only obtained peace (treaty of Arras, September 4, 1414), on condition of not returning to Paris.

John, however, did nothing to prevent the surrender of Rouen, which had been besieged by the English, and on which the fate of the kingdom seemed to depend; and the town was taken in 1419.

The old towns of Axel and Halst were formerly important fortresses, and as such were frequently besieged in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.

But hardly was he settled at Marburg when the news came that the Spaniards had besieged and taken Oudewater, and murdered its inhabitants almost without exception.

He was pursued to Winchester, besieged in Wolvesey castle, and finally compelled to surrender and leave the kingdom.

The castle was begun, in or about 1109, by Cadwgan ab Bleddyn ab Cynfyn (Cynvyn), and finished by Gwenwynwyn; in 1196 it was besieged, undermined and taken by Hubert, archbishop of Canterbury.