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How to use sieges in a sentence

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The mutiny, a series of sieges, consisted of small unit actions and major battles.
Also, the Tartars carried the plague closer to Europe and into other trading ports after sieges in Asia.
It's time to leave behind the fort that has stories of sieges, surrenders, trading and treaties to tell.
Ultimately, using the escalade as a form of attack proved too expensive and difficult to implement in all but the weakest castle sieges.
The appellation takes its name from the village of Minerve, scene of one of the bloodiest sieges of the Cathar sect in the 13th century.
They also were significant in limited tactical actions close to the shore such as the prosecution or relief of sieges.
Despite lacking any formal military training, he led his army of devoted followers to a succession of victories in battles and sieges.
During the sieges of Louisbourg and Quebec, many marines served on land with the besieging army.
The Applicant also points to evidence of sieges of other towns in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The site has been victim to numerous sieges and subsequent reconstructions.
Most of the testimonies of the medieval city were erased by the many sieges and destruction they suffered in its history.
Most contemporary commanders used their troops in a slow, expensive, attritional warfare based on sieges of selected fortified cities or fortresses.
Within these settings riders on horseback acted out pantomimed stories based on famous battles and sieges.
If that is not enough, head online and duel it out against numerous opponents in epic island sieges and head-to-head fleet battles.
These granaries were used to store foodstuffs, in particular wheat, as a contingency for sieges and wars.
The Grund area: in times past, the sieges of the Luxembourg fortress dominated the life of the Grund.
Nevertheless, ongoing battles and sieges continued for many years thereafter.
Between this arch and the section where the gate itself opens is a gap through which missiles could be fired during sieges.
After 1526, the castle underwent several sieges and its condition deteriorated.
In a war composed mostly of sieges rather than battles, he proved his mettle.
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It sustained three sieges, and in 1644 was escaladed and taken by Prince Rupert with considerable slaughter.
They belonged to the times when 30,000 men were an army, and when campaigns were spent in sieges.
Consequently they could not be taken by assault without scaling ladders, or otherwise, usual in sieges, unless by the sally port.
It sustained several sieges during the 18th century, and passed alternately into the hands of the Bhopal and Nagpur rulers.
There was nobody in New England that knew anything about sieges or any other regular fighting.
He was some years a captain, and behaved himself with great gallantry in several engagements and at several sieges.
All the sieges round the table were filled except the Siege Perilous.
He distinguished himself at the sieges of Haddington and Dundee.
In the following century came the three sieges of the civil War.
Gibraltar has stood several protracted sieges, one of them of nearly four years' duration, and the English only captured it by stratagem.
He had read of marches, sieges, conflicts, and he had longed to see it all.
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