For every useless mouth in a beleaguered place adds to the difficulties of the defenders and facilitates the task of the besiegers. |
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The cordon on the top of the revetement of the escarp is a considerable obstacle to the besiegers. |
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Also, the early Hittite capital Boghazkoy had predug tunnels to allow for defensive sorties against any prospective besiegers. |
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The besiegers lacked artillery, and their communications were harassed by the aggressive Enniskillen men. |
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The besiegers grew increasingly desperate during the late winter and early spring as supplies ran terribly short. |
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The attack, when it came, was ill co-ordinated, and the city resisted with more determination than its besiegers had ever expected. |
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Immediately after the explosion, the besiegers could assault the fortress or extend their sap trenches into the crater and reinforce them with gabions. |
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The Medieval walls without flanks and terreplein to resist gunpowder bombardment were easy prey to the besiegers and the fortifications soon succumbed. |
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The defenders ran out of ammunition while the Royalist besiegers kept up the bombardment as though determined to destroy everything opposing them. |
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It also raised the possibility of forcing back the besiegers. |
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After three weeks, the besieged forces sallied from the castle and managed to take the besiegers by surprise. |
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In late 1346, plague broke out among the besiegers and from them penetrated into the town. |
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Bohemond recognised that the only option now was for open combat, and he launched a counterattack against the besiegers. |
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Giovanni Gambacorta took advantage of this to rise to power, but he secretly negotiated surrender with the besiegers. |
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When coastal cities or fortresses were besieged from the landward side, the besiegers would often blockade the seaward side as well. |
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Henry was then free to turn his forces south against the besiegers at Wallingford. |
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Hundreds of besiegers were scalded or choked to death when boiling water was poured into the tunnels or fires were lit to fill them with smoke. |
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It took more than four months but the besiegers finally breached the wall and entered the city at night. |
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On occasion, siege castles would be built to defend the besiegers from a sudden sally and would have been abandoned after the siege ended one way or another. |
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