How to use in-sentence of “siege”:
+ In 1855 he was sent to the Crimean War and took part in the siege of Sebastopol.
+ Another story suggests Mons Meg was made in order to help James II in the 1452 siege of Threave Castle in Kirkcudbright, when the Clan MacLellan used it to batter the castle.
+ After the siege at Glenrowan, VictoriaGlenrowan, Dan Kelly and Steve Hart, were buried in the Greta Cemetery.
+ He was wearing this sash under his armour when he was captured by the police after the Siege of Glenrowan.
+ Before other British outposts had learned about Pontiac’s siege at Detroit, Native Americans captured five small forts in a series of attacks between May 16 and June 2.Dowd, “War under Heaven”, 125.
+ It was part of the siege artillery.
+ The city Siege of Sevastopol defended itself for 349 days against Piedmont-Sardinia.
+ An aristocrat and fighter, he led the Siege of Cawnporerebellion in Cawnpore during the 1857 uprising.
Example sentences of “siege”:
+ Due to the strong fighting of the 9th Army and the Separate Coastal Army, See also and the Black Sea Fleet forces in Odessa, it took the Romanian army 73 days of siege and four attacks to capture the city.
+ His most prominent role was the leadership of the surrounded Syrian forces during the over three-year long Siege of Deir ez-Zor.
+ In April 1862, Union forces captured Siege of Fort PulaskiFort Pulaski and Savannah, Georgia.
+ Reeves began his career as a screenwriter for the movies “Under Siege 2: Dark Territory”.
+ Although his force suffered heavy casualties, Bouquet fought off the attack and relieved Fort Pitt on August 20, bringing the siege to an end.
+ These people had died or been killed during the Siege of Leningrad.
+ He fought at the siege of Louisbourg, Nova ScotiaLouisburg and the capture of Quebec during the Seven Years’ War.
+ An indecisive winter of blockade and siege followed.
+ General Clinton and Major André, who returned victorious from the Siege of Charleston on 18 June were immediately caught up in this news.
+ The President declares a state of siege and emergency upon consultation with the Government and with permission of the Parliament.
+ German siege guns of the two World Wars.
+ Due to the strong fighting of the 9th Army and the Separate Coastal Army, See also and the Black Sea Fleet forces in Odessa, it took the Romanian army 73 days of siege and four attacks to capture the city.
+ His most prominent role was the leadership of the surrounded Syrian forces during the over three-year long Siege of Deir ez-Zor.
+ He was wounded in the siege of Montreuil.
+ Antony had laid siege to the province of Gaul, where he wanted the governorship.
+ Simcoe fought for the British Empire against the Rebels during the Siege of Boston.
+ The attacks on British forts did not happen at the same time: most Ohio Native Americans did not enter the war until nearly a month after the beginning of Pontiac’s siege at Detroit.
+ Suppiluliuma met with his son and then invaded Syria himself, laying siege to the city of Carchemish.
+ The humans and elves start a siege of the Lonely Mountain.
+ They were sometimes used in war, with many famous sieges like the siege of Kenilworth in 1266 which lasted for six months, or Stirling Castle which was besieged eight times.
+ The siege started on 8 September 1941, when the last road to the city was severed.
More in-sentence examples of “siege”:
+ The siege ended when the United States Cavalry on the orders of President of the United StatesPresident Benjamin Harrison relieved the two forces, although further fighting persisted in the following months.
+ Several of the siege engines were destroyed by the Scots’ garrison and the Steward suddenly rushed in force from the town to drive off the enemy.
+ A siege happens when the attacker gets to a city or fortress which cannot be taken by storm, and which refuses to surrender.
+ When Siege of PetersburgRichmond fell in 1865, records were destroyed, shipped south or left behind.
+ There was a long war and siege of Sauron’s fortress Barad-dûr.
+ In the meantime, war parties raided deep into Pennsylvania, taking prisoners and killing unknown numbers of settlers in scattered farms.Too strong to be taken by force, the fort was kept under siege throughout July.
+ During the siege of Meaux, Henry V had a fatal illness and died on 31 August 1422, just before his 35th birthday.
+ This is known as the Great Siege of Malta.
+ The Siege of Vicksburg was a major battle of the American Civil War.
+ The name “Branch Davidian” is widely known for the Waco Siege of 1993 on their property near Waco, Texas.
+ McClellan ordered the construction of siege fortifications and brought his heavy siege guns to the front.
+ In 1632 during the Thirty Years’ War, the Imperial general Albrecht von Wallenstein besieged King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden in the Siege of Nuremberg.
+ He was killed during the siege at Glenrowan, Victoria.
+ After making peace with the Hivites, they went to lay siege to Gibeon.
+ Choron is also remembered for the food he served during the Siege of Paris by the Prussians, which began on 19 September 1870.
+ Together with Pier Gerlofs Donia, Jelckama fought against the Saxon warriors that occupied their homeland of Frisia, at the capture of Medemblik, and in the siege of Middelburg, ZeelandMiddelburg castle.
+ As the siege continued, and food became ever more scarce, he wrote in his diary that he was reduced to “eating the unknown”.
+ Procopius, “Bellum Gothicum”, 3.2.35.2, characteristically does not mention the incident, reported in Gregory the Great, who imagines a seven-year siege i.e.
+ Therefore, it is a fair guess that the epic began as a long oral poem based on the siege of Troy, but with details added and changed as time went on.
+ In the township of Glenrowan, off the highway, tourists can rest, walk and examine the famous Kelly siege sites.
+ The Siege of Jerusalem took place from September 20 to October 2, 1187.
+ Cromwell was remembered in Ireland as a brutal invader, particularly because of the large numbers of people killed at the Siege of Drogheda..
+ He was shot dead in the siege of Glenrowan, VictoriaGlenrowan.
+ Railway guns were used by France during the Siege of Paris in 1870, and by the British during the Siege of Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
+ Menabrea fought the Second Italian War of Independence; in 1860 he became lieutenant-general and conducted the siege of Gaeta: after this battle, he was appointed senator and received the title of count.
+ He realized that without siege engines he could not hope to take the capital, so he decided to continue into central and southern Italy.
+ The siege ended when the United States Cavalry on the orders of President of the United StatesPresident Benjamin Harrison relieved the two forces, although further fighting persisted in the following months.
+ Several of the siege engines were destroyed by the Scots' garrison and the Steward suddenly rushed in force from the town to drive off the enemy.
+ A siege happens when the attacker gets to a city or fortress which cannot be taken by storm, and which refuses to surrender.
+ At the same time, he tried to drain West Point’s supplies, so that a siege would be more likely to succeed.
+ In September 1793, he assumed command of an artillery brigade at the siege of Toulon, where royalist leaders had welcomed a British fleet and troops.
+ Grant started the Siege of Vicksburg during the month of May 1863.
+ His Siege of Vienna was repulsed by the Protestant Reformationdeeply-divided Holy Roman Empire in 1529.
+ The siege lasted three months.
+ 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.
+ Suppiluliuma broke the siege on the eighth day, installing his son Piyassili as viceroy of the kingdom.
+ She was a survivor of the Siege of Leningrad.
+ In 1087, the Conqueror died of wounds suffered from a riding accident during a siege of Mantes.
+ General George Washington, Commander-in-Chief had defeated the British in the Siege of Boston on March 17, 1776.
+ However, in 2017, militants pledging allegiance to the Islamic State laid siege to the Mindanao city of Marawi and the whole of the island was placed under military rule.
+ In 1998, Jones organized a successful effort to build a new Branch Davidian church as a memorial to those who died during the 1993 fire that ended the government’s siege of the original Branch Davidian complex near Waco, Texas.
+ Salamandastron, the mountain ruled by Badger Lord Urthstripe the Strong, and guarded by forty hares of the Long Patrol, is under siege by the weasel Ferahgo the Assassin, his son Klitch, and his vermin army of “Corpsemakers”.
+ The city was made famous for its heroic resistance and bloody siege during the Battle of Stalingrad taking place during World War II.
+ The Dutch tried to break the siege again in October, but were beaten back by Koxinga’s army.
+ The siege started in 1661 and ended in 1662.
+ The Battle of Yorktown, also called the Siege of Yorktown, fought from September 28-October 19, 1781.
+ After that, Smoluća came under siege by the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
+ Boone successfully led his fellow settlers during the Siege of Boonesborough in 1778.
+ It tells the story from the Angerwrath of Achilles, to the death and funeral of Hector and the siege of Troy.
+ The siege had lasted nine and a half months.
+ Columbia University Press, 1953, p.43 Some of these battles he described were the siege of Calais in 1347 and the Battle of Poitiers where the French King and his son were captured.
+ Although the Soviet Union forces managed to open a narrow path to the city on 18 January 1943, the siege was only stopped on 27 January 1944, 872 days after it began.