siege

During the 1710 siege of Tallinn, for example, the disease killed Swedish and Russian soldiers as well as civilians.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

Ms. Fox constructs a clear, detailed and well-paced narrative of the siege.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Tuesday's heist is another example of "Europe's museums under siege", he adds.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

And there are times that place us under siege, like now, when we feel it in our skin.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2018

When Cortes and his Indian allies finally attacked, the Mexica resisted so fiercely despite their weakness that the siege has often been described as the costliest battle in history—casualty estimates range up to 100,000.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Similar sieges unfolded across Syria—in Duma, Zabadani, and beyond.

From Slate ● Nov. 19, 2025

We stretch beyond the cathedral and onto Pamplona’s city walls, where the stone holds centuries of sieges, prayers, and heartbreak.

From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025

The tactics to enforce the sieges have also limited residents’ access to health and education, forcing one in 12 people across the country to flee their homes, the organization said.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2023

The UN human rights chief has said sieges are illegal under international law.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2023

I had read about sieges like this in my English history book, but in ancient days soldiers had worn armor and ridden horseback and used battering rams against the city walls.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz

And at a subsequent screening he met several audience members who said they were from Mariupol and that their relatives were escaping the sieged city at the same time he was.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 12, 2023

On February 28, 1993, law enforcement sieged Mount Carmel Center ranch, the compound that belonged to Koresh and his religious cult.

From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2023

“There is quite a lot of people still remaining in the absolutely sieged city of Mariupol in some inhumane conditions,” he said during a video briefing.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 4, 2022

Over these past weekends, many of my friends have attended medical first aid courses, survival courses on how to survive in an occupied or sieged city.

From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2022

We're sieged in by planes and ground forces of Savannah Fortress.

From The Night of the Long Knives by Virgil Finlay

It has also levied some sanctions on those doing the sieging.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2022

Italy, all but some sieging of strong-places, may be considered as lost for the present.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 09 by Thomas Carlyle

His worst war was with Pommern,—just claims disputed there, and much confused bickering, sieging and harassing in consequence: of which quarrel we must speak anon.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 by Thomas Carlyle

The War, since Friedrich got out of it, does not abate in animosity, nor want for bloodshed, battle and sieging; but offers little now memorable.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 by Thomas Carlyle

He knew that before him lay the culminating battle of his long and ardent sieging of Fortune's stronghold.

From The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley by Ridgwell Cullum