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How to use besiegers in a sentence

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For every useless mouth in a beleaguered place adds to the difficulties of the defenders and facilitates the task of the besiegers.
The cordon on the top of the revetement of the escarp is a considerable obstacle to the besiegers.
Also, the early Hittite capital Boghazkoy had predug tunnels to allow for defensive sorties against any prospective besiegers.
The besiegers lacked artillery, and their communications were harassed by the aggressive Enniskillen men.
The besiegers grew increasingly desperate during the late winter and early spring as supplies ran terribly short.
The attack, when it came, was ill co-ordinated, and the city resisted with more determination than its besiegers had ever expected.
Immediately after the explosion, the besiegers could assault the fortress or extend their sap trenches into the crater and reinforce them with gabions.
The Medieval walls without flanks and terreplein to resist gunpowder bombardment were easy prey to the besiegers and the fortifications soon succumbed.
The defenders ran out of ammunition while the Royalist besiegers kept up the bombardment as though determined to destroy everything opposing them.
It also raised the possibility of forcing back the besiegers.
After three weeks, the besieged forces sallied from the castle and managed to take the besiegers by surprise.
In late 1346, plague broke out among the besiegers and from them penetrated into the town.
Bohemond recognised that the only option now was for open combat, and he launched a counterattack against the besiegers.
Giovanni Gambacorta took advantage of this to rise to power, but he secretly negotiated surrender with the besiegers.
When coastal cities or fortresses were besieged from the landward side, the besiegers would often blockade the seaward side as well.
Henry was then free to turn his forces south against the besiegers at Wallingford.
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.
It took more than four months but the besiegers finally breached the wall and entered the city at night.
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.
Examples from Classical Literature
The besiegers of trichinopoly gathered reinforcements, and beleaguered Arcot.
The besiegers at the furthermost points were seen to clamber over the walls.
The French artillery was very powerful and, at times, overpowered that of the besiegers.
It was quite as great an advantage to the besiegers as it was to the besieged.
At noon the besiegers ceased firing and refreshed themselves with chow-chow and brandy.
A wide gap in the outworks of the mamelon proved that the fire of the besiegers had done effective work.
But the archers of the besiegers sought to put themselves on more equal terms with their opponents by using the pavis or mantelet.
But this cannot be, for he says expressly that he was one of the besiegers.
If he were once in command of that knoll, the besiegers at its foot would be forced to retire.
If a gun was fired from the alamo, one of the besiegers was sure to fall.
But the British officers were scornful of their clodhopper besiegers.
The besiegers were stupefied as they gazed, and stopped their ears.
The besiegers, however, got reinforcements and the struggle was continued.
Should the besiegers enter, all hope of escape would be over.
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