Her siege of Orléans is perhaps the most remarkable on record.

Still, a siege is always a poor sort of a pick-and-shovel business, and there were better prospects with my hussars in front of the English.

Ever since the success of Hughes's Siege of Damascus 'a siege had become a popular title' (ante, iii. 259, note 1).

The siege of Tournay was the first operation Edward resolved to undertake.

The siege of Antwerp and the defeat of the Spanish Armada are the two prominent and obvious illustrations of his power of pictorial description: in these he has presented facts with a vividness and coherence worthy of the great masters of poetry and romance; and his capacity of thus giving unmistakable reality to events is not merely exercised in harmony with the literal truth of things, but makes that truth more clearly appreciated.

The siege of Saguntum was the cause of the second Punic war, which Hannibal carried on against our ancestors.

A siege, if uninterrupted, is a mere matter of time, and must end in capitulation.

The successful siege of Germany is a stupendous though not impossible task.

The siege of Metz then became the great question of the day: Charles V. made all his preparations to conduct it on an immense scale, and Henry II. immediately ordered Francis de Guise to go and defend his new conquest at all hazards.

The siege of 1565 was its last great struggle with its mortal foe; after that there is but little left for the historian but to trace its gradual decadence and fall.

Such a siege as had been carried on during the past eight and forty hours could not be cheerful amusement, and I began to have an idea that it would not take very much of a reverse to send the Tories flying to some other section of the country.

Indeed, the siege itself was to him an unimportant thing.

The orders were that every effort be made to pick off such of the enemy as offered themselves for targets, and before the day had come to an end St. Leger's men must have begun to understand that the siege of Fort Schuyler was no longer the one-sided affair which it had been.

The siege of La Rochelle was its only important event.

The siege of Spanish Fort was the war's last great battle.

Owing to this the siege was perhaps the shortest in the annals of war that a fortified city has ever sustained.

The siege of the giant city would be a much greater undertaking than forty-four years ago, as the fortifications have been essentially augmented and strengthened since the Franco-Prussian war.

This third siege was the most destructive to the castle: the tremendous artillery had shattered its massive walls; and its demolition was completed by order of Parliament.