Dave Bassett's team had to resist a late siege to ensure a place in the quarter-finals.

Its inhabitants successfully resisted a siege by Ottoman forces in 1822.

As if all this was not bad enough, by this time Gerona resisted a second siege.

We will have difficulty resisting so long a siege!

The town was badly damaged but the castle resisted a siege and was not captured.

It resisted a siege of thirteen months and a terrible bombardment, until at last the garrison surrendered.

Carcassonne was said to be named after resisting a five-year siege by Charlemagne.

They did not, however, have the original purpose of being a structure able to resist a prolonged siege or bombardment.

Left to themselves, the forts were planned to resist a siege for about a month, based on estimates made in 1888.

However, it quickly became obsolete as a serious fortification genuinely capable of resisting a siege.