"siege" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They took Pavia after a three-year siege in 572, and made it their capital.
- Husayn barricaded himself in the citadel, but found that its supplies had been depleted by Khalaf's forces during the three-year siege.
- After a three-year siege, Thasos was recaptured and forced back into the League.
- Twelve schools here were closed during the militant group's three-year siege of Mogadishu.
- But the resulting three-year siege and stalemate hurt morale and contributed to the evaporation of international support for the guerrilla war.
- During the three-year siege, the city's Jewish community fought alongside the Byzantine garrison.
- He then successfully resisted a three-year siege in the fortified city of Bactra, before Antiochus finally decided to recognize the new ruler.
- The armies of Pharaoh Ahmose I seized and razed the town after a three-year siege.
- Or the three-year siege of Sarajevo.
- After a three-year siege, a surrender was negotiated in 1645 between Oliver Cromwell and the Royalists.
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