"siege" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- On 3 September 1917, Hutier, commanding the Eighth Army, ended the two-year siege of the Russian city of Riga.
- A major rebellion followed and Gustav Vasa finally entered the city in 1523, after a two-year siege.
- When two legions under Divus Julius's uncle, Sextus Caesar, arrived to exact punishment, it shut its gates and underwent a two-year siege.
- Charles X Gustav quickly regretted not having destroyed Denmark completely and in August 1658 he began a two-year long siege of Copenhagen but failed to take the capital.
- Ismail was forced to return and lay a two-year siege on the city.
- After a two-year siege, the fort fell to bin Sultan in 1698.
- In May 1337, after a two-year siege, Tlemcen finally fell to a Marinid assault.
- Barracks and storehouses were designed to allow the fort to survive a two-year siege, but the cannons were fired only once: during the aborted attempt by the Dutch to invade Macau in 1622.
- This convoy is seen as the end of the two-year siege of Malta.
- Most importantly, the town of Algeciras, a valuable bridgehead held by the Marinids was finally retaken after a two-year siege in 1344.
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