"siege" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The siege cannon being too heavy to move quickly, the French burned the gun carriages and withdrew.
- The batteries, which opened fire on 14 January, included twenty-three 24-lb and four 18-lb siege cannon.
- Wellington positioned five field batteries and three 18-pdr siege cannon to provide fire support to the attacking infantry.
- Only one of the field pieces was really suitable as a siege cannon.
- They surrounded a great long-snouted machine, like a many-barrelled siege cannon.
- He insisted that the siege cannon must be brought into action at once; the Belgians still showed no disposition to surrender.
- The Mamluks had certainly acquired siege cannon by the 1360s, and possibly as early as 1320.
- However, due lack of heavy siege cannons, the Norwegian forces were intact.
- The Brigade do not field infantry, but only cavalry and a few brass or bronze cast siege cannon.
- Within six days, the siege cannons battered a breach in the wall.
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