sieges in English
Verdun had withstood a siege of ten weeks
- blockadeencirclement
- beleagueringbesieging
Use "sieges" in a sentence
1. Airlift tipped the balance of the sieges.
2. Sieges have taken place in almost all eras of warfare.
3. Over the centuries Arras endured sieges, occupation and annexation
4. Bravo Team Baldpates! $10 Candace Miller to Mason Sieges
5. Belfry comes from berfrey, a medieval term for a wooden tower used in sieges
6. The book is not an exhaustive account of all the sieges of the war.
7. Following the Napoleonic sieges, the Biedermeier style grew during a period of economic impoverishment from 1825 to 1835.
8. To create authentic siege situations, the team consulted actual counter-terrorism units and looked at real-life examples of sieges.
9. It was the location of the first (1592) and second (1593) Sieges of Jinju by Japanese forces during the Imjin War.
10. In the beginning of the 20th century, during World War I, Medina witnessed one of the longest sieges in history.
11. As a result, by far the most common battles of the era were sieges, hugely time-consuming and expensive affairs.
12. The scene for some of Europe's greatest historical events--battles, sieges, executions, negotiations, kidnappings, and betrayals--Castles today are fascinating and romantic places to visit
13. Evidently, the prophecy is best understood as a generic description of the various sieges that will befall Jerusalem, a general warning of what lies ahead.
14. The Appellation takes its name from the village of Minerve, scene of one of the bloodiest sieges of the Cathar sect in the 13th century
15. To Atone for this lapse in loyalty, the Death Korps of Krieg now commits to the bloodiest sieges and most horrific meat grinders in the galaxy
16. Arbalest - an engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles arbalist , ballista , bricole , mangonel , onager , trebuchet , trebucket , …
17. The events of the Family Da Passano and its castle are still present in the memories of the inhabitants of Castagnola as fragments of a past made by ambuscades, unexpected events, sieges and betrayals.
18. ‘‘I grew up with it, getting to know the various places of battles, skirmishes, sieges, Ambuscades, ancient strongholds and war trails,’ wrote William.’ ‘The group were active in the late 1980s and used to conduct daring Ambuscades on mostly abusive police and local officials.’
19. Marion Crawford, Saracinesca [1]: It had done well enough for a thousand years, it would do well enough still; it had stood firm against fierce sieges in the dark ages of the Roman Baronry, it could afford to stand unchanged
20. As a fortification, it suffered and successfully resisted two sieges during the Middle Ages; the first of them in 1343, during Peter IV of Aragon's campaign to reincorporate the Majorcan territories to the Crown of Aragon, and then again in 1391 during an anti-semitic peasant revolt.
21. Displaying superb airmanship and unwavering courage, MIDWAY/CVW-5 pilots played a significant role in lifting the prolonged sieges at An Lộc, Kon Tum, and Quảng Trị and in carrying out the concentrated aerial strikes against the enemy's industrial heartland which eventually resulted in a cease-fire.
22. ‘‘I grew up with it, getting to know the various places of battles, skirmishes, sieges, Ambuscades, ancient strongholds and war trails,’ wrote William.’ ‘The group were active in the late 1980s and used to conduct daring Ambuscades on mostly abusive police and local officials.’
23. Six Caryatides, or marble women, clad in flowing robes, support the portico of the Temple of Hercules, but the porticos and colonnades of the other structures are formed of massive Doric and Ionic pillars, whose flutings and capitals are still measurably perfect, notwithstanding the centuries that have gone over them and the sieges they have suffered.
24. The following is a list of sieges of Constantinople, a historic city located in an area which is today part of Istanbul, Turkey.The city was built on the land that links Europe to Asia through Bosporus and connects the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea.As a transcontinental city within the Silk Road, Constantinople had a strategic value for many empires and kingdoms who tried to conqueror it