Pyrrhus abandons the siege of Lilybaeum.

For months the siege of Sevastopol continued.

Verdun had withstood a siege of ten weeks.

He distinguished himself repeatedly in the constant wars of the period, notably in La Rochelle and at the Siege of Exilles in 1630.

The fall of the Malakoff was the end of the siege of the city.

Starting from high ground, he built a siege terrace of sorts.

In 1651 he became lieutenant general, and in 1654 at the Siege of Stenay he introduced new methods of siegecraft which anticipated in a measure the great improvements of Vauban.

The Turks held siege over the Castle of Eger for a long time.

Tragedy of Palestinian refugees in Yarmouk 1st siege, then bombs, now ISIS.

In September 1529 the famous siege of Florence began, and he was released.

and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it all around.

And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.

Contented by this, Caesar designed and began engineering an impressive siege apparatus.

But there was another population that was affected the 40,000 fetuses in utero during the siege.

Gather up your wares out of the land, you who live under siege.

Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.

Of course, the Soviet Union and China are both acting in this way in their own interest, but what really counts today is that the Soviet Union and China are suporting us two important conditions for finally establishing with less difficulty a new and more just international order.

In order to break the siege once and for all, a tunnel was reputedly built beneath the city.

Nothing helps the Israeli right more than heightening the electorate s sense of being under siege.

At the siege of Sluys he greatly distinguished himself under Sir Roger Williams and Sir Thomas Baskerville.

I will encamp against you all around you, and will lay siege against you with posted troops. I will raise siege works against you.

You shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered and you shall prophesy against it.

And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.

Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.

A rally is planned for Sydney s Martin Place, scene of the recent siege and deaths.

At midday, an insurgent division under the command of Hermenegildo Galeana began its assault on Valladolid.

There is no way out of the siege except to take the bull by the horns and let God judge the outcome.

And then on May 5th, 1945, the siege came to a sudden end when Holland was liberated by the Allies.

Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.

Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.

And in the aftermath of the Sydney siege, he congratulated the Daily Telegraph (part of his newspaper empire) for capturing the bloody outcome .

The Battle of Toulon was fought from 29 July to 21 August 1707 at Toulon, France during the War of the Spanish Succession.

Philip started the siege by blockading the city by land and sea to stop attempts to reinforce or supply the city.

As markets continue their siege of the peripheral countries of the EU, the Government of Yoshihiko Noda does not lower the guard.

The opening of the Nazi's siege was followed by one of the harshest winters in decades so cold the water in the canals froze solid.

Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the surrounding peoples, and on Judah also will it be in the siege against Jerusalem.

Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.

La Noue, the famous Huguenot leader, was mortally wounded in 1591 in the siege of the castle, which was dismantled in 1626 by Richelieu.

Behold, I lay bands on you, and you shall not turn you from one side to the other, until you have accomplished the days of your siege.

And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.

There was a little city, and few men within it and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.

There was a little city, and few men within it and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it

His soldiers protested, refusing to end a siege in disgrace when they still had to avenge the innocent Romans murdered by the Gauls.

This trend continued throughout 2014, and netizens drew parallels between the shutting down of the station and the Bahraini government's track record in closing in on opposition voices.

Yet before the siege, a state of peace had existed for twenty years between the Holy Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire as a result of the Peace of Vasvár.