"siege" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- With the fall of Napoléon III in 1870, Malon was freed from prison and helped organise relief for the poor during the Prussian siege of Paris.
- The city was under Prussian siege beginning February 1703, but only surrendered on 21 December.
- They cheerfully looked beyond the realities of that convalescent city, where, after liberation, Parisians were the hungriest they had been since the Prussian siege.
- When during the Prussian siege of the city Mokronowski was sent to Lithuania to replace ailing Wielhorski, Poniatowski was given his post in Warsaw's defense parameter.
- During the Franco-Prussian War, Alphonse de Rothschild had guarded the ramparts of Paris on the eve of the Prussian siege.
- The government, headed by General Louis Jules Trochu, was under Prussian siege in Paris.
- Dresden suffered heavy destruction in the Seven Years' War (1756-1763), following its capture by Prussian forces, its subsequent re-capture, and a failed Prussian siege in 1760.
- In a final attempt to cut the German supply lines in northeast France, Bourbaki's army marched north to attack the Prussian siege of Belfort and relieve the beleaguered French defenders.
- During the Prussian siege of Paris in 1870, most of the animals were eaten by starving Parisians.
- Castor and Pollux (elephants) were killed and eaten during the 1870 Prussian siege of Paris.
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