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siege assault against a city or fortress with the purpose of capturing it. The history of siegecraft parallels the development of fortification and, later, artillery . In early times battering rams and bores were employed to break down the walls and gates of a fortified place (see castle ) if d... Read more
Exmouth
Exmouth , town (1991 pop. 28,037), Devon, SW England, at the mouth of the Exe River. It is a port and a popular summer resort. In 1347, Exmouth provided 10 ships for the siege of Calais . ... Read more
Alesia
Alesia , hilltop town of Celtic and Roman Gaul, on the site of Alise-Sainte-Reine, near Dijon. It was held by Vercingetorix and his men (52 BC) when Caesar besieged it. Caesar prevented Vercingetorix' allies from raising the siege and starved out the town, thereby ending Gallic resistance to Rome.... Read more
Sir Henry Havelock
Sir Henry Havelock , 1795-1857, British general. Entering the army in 1815, he was sent (1823) to India, where he served in the first Burma War (1824-26), the first Afghan War (1839), and the Sikh Wars (1843-49). During the Indian Mutiny , Havelock recaptured (July, 1857) Cawnpore ( Kanpur ) from t... Read more
George Walker
George Walker 1618-90, Irish Anglican clergyman and commander. As joint governor of Londonderry (now Derry) during the siege (1689) of that city by the army of the deposed James II, Walker roused the people by his courage and inspiring sermons and was able to hold the city for 105 days until it was... Read more
battle of Bunker Hill
battle of Bunker Hill in the American Revolution, June 17, 1775. Detachments of colonial militia under Artemas Ward , Nathanael Greene, John Stark , and Israel Putnam laid siege to Boston shortly after the battles of Lexington and Concord. However, Thomas Gage , British commander in the city, ... Read more
Belfort
Belfort , city (1990 pop. 51,913), capital of the Territory of Belfort (a department), E France, in Alsace. An important industrial and transportation center, it has large cotton mills and metalworks. A major fortress town since the 17th cent., it commands the Belfort Gap, or Burgundy Gate, between ... Read more
John Byng
John Byng 1704-57, British admiral; son of George Byng, Viscount Torrington . Sent (1756) to prevent the French from taking Minorca, he arrived when the island was already under siege and, after an indecisive naval engagement, withdrew without relieving the siege. His court-martial and execution f... Read more
Ladysmith
Ladysmith town (1991 pop. 30,532), KwaZulu-Natal, E South Africa. The town has railroad yards and food-processing, textile, and tire factories. It is the distribution center for the surrounding agricultural and coal-mining region. Ladysmith was founded in 1851 by Boers (Afrikaners) who had been p... Read more
Lucknow
Lucknow or Lakhnau , city (1991 pop. 1,669,204), capital of Uttar Pradesh state, N central India, on the Gomati River. An educational and cultural center, it has varied industries, including food processing, railroad shops, and handicrafts. The city is a major transportation hub and has an impor... Read more

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Vienna, Sieges of
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World VIENNA, SIEGES OF VIENNA, SIEGES OF. The city of Vienna was the object of two unsuccessful sieges by Ottoman forces during the early modern period. THE FIRST SIEGE, 1529 When, at the battle of Moh á cs in 1526, the troops of Sultan...
Tobruk, sieges of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II Tobruk, sieges of. Rommel's victories in the spring of 1941 during the Western Desert campaigns failed to include this Libyan port which contained...
Sevastopol, sieges of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II Sevastopol, sieges of. The USSR's main Black Sea naval base was one of the world's strongest fortresses. Its site on a deeply eroded, bare...
Food as a Weapon of War
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture ...such practices by all civilized nations. Sieges of fortified positions have been used...Pictorial representations in Egypt depict sieges over 4,000 years ago, while the Iliad...years ago. It, like many of the numerous sieges that followed, ended not through force...
siege
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...fortifications and mount defensive artillery. Many sieges became artillery duels. The development...firepower and mobility. Some notable sieges of history include those of Syracuse...V. Melegari, The Great Military Sieges (1972); I. V. Hogg, Fortress (1975...
Engineering, Military
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History ...bastioned fortifications and the elaborate sieges required to capture them. In the primitive...fortifications. The war brought some grand sieges, which had been so much a part of the...threat of more powerful artillery. Other sieges, like the one at Petersburg, presaged...
Battle Tactics and Campaign Strategy
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...battles or by protracted maneuvers punctuated by interminable sieges? Were armies effective instruments of state power and ambition...outcomes. Instead, conflict was increasingly characterized by sieges, in which numerical superiority and grinding attrition could...
Trench Warfare
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History ...entrenchments. This move toward trench warfare can be seen in sieges such as at Vicksburg (1863) and Petersburg (1864). At the...Petersburg showed the power of defensive entrenchments during sieges when protected by artillery and rifles. Equally, in the last...
Sextus Julius Frontinus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...stratagems for use before the battle begins, those concerned with the battle itself, and those concerned with sieges and the raising of sieges. The other military treatise, De re militari, has not survived except in fragments quoted by other authorities...
Sebastien LePrestre de Vauban
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...acumen in planning military fortifications and his direction of sieges against France's enemies helped the regime achieve dominance...the king was alongside his top defense engineer during crucial sieges. For the town of Maastricht Vauban designed a system of zig...

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Air Power, Strategic
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...such as those conducted against Germany and Japan in World War II, embrace many target systems and compare to traditional sieges, in which all elements of a nation's economy and military strength — including its means of sustenance and its...
Campbell, Sir Colin, 1st Baron Clyde
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...9); and the Crimean War (1854). On the outbreak of the mutiny in 1857, he was appointed commander‐in‐chief of the Indian army and was principally responsible for relieving the sieges of Lucknow and Cawnpore .
Xanthian Marbles
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...Xanthus (now in Turkey), which are now in the British Museum. The figures are Assyrian in character and are believed to have been executed before 500 bc; the subjects include processions, athletic activity, sieges, and tomb scenes.
Ibáñez E Ibáñez De Ibero, Carlos
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Martin Ib á ñ ez de Prado, was a soldier and mathematician: a national hero for his participation in the sieges of Zaragoza and one of the first postulators of non-Euclidean geometry. In 1832, when Ibanez was barely seven, his father...
Menabrea, Luigi Federico
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...minimum. Menabrea ’ s political and military advance continued. In 1860 he became lieutenant-general, conducted sieges at Ancona, Capua, and Gaeta, was appointed senator, and was granted the title of count. He was minister of the navy under...
Winslow, John
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military ...1754–63) he served as a lieutenant colonel commandant of a New England regiment that contributed to successful sieges of French forts in Nova Scotia. In late 1755 Winslow was appointed a major general of a 7000 man provincial force with a mission...
Blake, Robert
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...1657). Admiral. Educated at Oxford, Blake volunteered for the parliamentary army in 1642, and distinguished himself at the sieges of Lyme and Taunton. In February 1649 he was one of three colonels appointed admiral by the Commonwealth. His first assignment...
cat
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture cat. 1. Strong movable penthouse to protect besiegers, also called cat-house . 1. Lofty work used in fortifications and sieges. 3. Double tripod with six legs.
saker
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military saker a light cannon with a bore or four inches or less, much used in sieges and on ships in the 16th century.
Indian
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...widespread mutinies in British garrison towns, with accompanying massacres of white soldiers and inhabitants. After a series of sieges (most notably that of Lucknow) and battles, the revolt was put down; it was followed by the institution of direct rule by...

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System de sieges regionale pour ameliorer les resultats des elections.
Magazine article from: Revue parlementaire canadienne; 3/22/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...systeme accorde parfois beaucoup trop de sieges au parti dominant et institue une assemblee...solution de rechange, le systeme des sieges regionaux, qui remedie a l'un et l...desequilibre au chapitre de la repartition des sieges, le systeme majoritaire a tendance a...
EL SALVADOR PRISON SIEGES END
News Wire article from: United Press International; 9/24/2004; 226 words ; ...International 09-24-2004 El Salvador prison sieges end SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador, Sep 24...two El Salvadoran prisons gave up their sieges Friday and freed at least 100 hostages...Cojutepeque and Chalatenango facilities ended sieges that began Thursday, liberating prison...
Medieval sieges & siegecraft.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2009; 546 words ; 9781602396333 Medieval sieges & siegecraft. Hindley, Geoffrey. Skyhorse Pub. Co. 2009...period to the non-specialist reader. In this survey of medieval sieges, he divides the subject by topic rather than chronology. He begins...
Peaceful end to house sieges.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England); 10/17/2001; 480 words ; ARMED police and riot squad officers stood by at two house sieges in North East Wales early yesterday morning. The sieges were at houses in Wrexham and Deeside. Armed officers and riot police stood by at the siege which lasted 24 hours at Colliery...
Qld: Two men arrested after separate sieges in north Queensland
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 4/30/2002; 328 words ; 00-00-0000 Qld: Two men arrested after separate sieges in north Queensland BRISBANE, April 30 AAP - Two men have kept police at bay for hours in separate sieges in north Queensland. One man was involved in a four-hour standoff just south...
Tas: Risdon prison group warns more sieges likely
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 4/17/2006; 564 words ; ...Australia) 04-17-2006 Tas: Risdon prison group warns more sieges likely HOBART, April 17 AAP - Hobart's Risdon Prison faces...not aware of any other examples in Australia where we've had sieges happening so often and (where) we've also got a 47 per cent...
Qld:Two men involved in separate sieges in north Queensland
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 4/30/2002; 279 words ; 00-00-0000 Qld:Two men involved in separate sieges in north Queensland Two men have kept police at bay for hours in separate sieges in north Queensland. One man was involved in a four-hour stand-off just south of Cairns after dousing...
Siege of Derry: Derry - the city of the sieges; Few events in Irish history have generated such controversy over the decades as the 1688-89 Siege of Derry. IAN STARRETT examines a new volume of essays, just published, which seeks to explore the profound impact events in the Maiden City have had on the literature, history, politics and popular culture of Ireland.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland); 5/31/2001; 700+ words ; ...historian T G Fraser says in the opening line of his essay, sieges are the stuff of which legends are made. Homer and Virgil knew...discover that the city was besieged on more than one occasion. Sieges other than 1689, the settlement was sacked in 1608 and briefly...
The police super rifle that will 'take out' a terrorist from 3,500ft; Snipers given 'awesome' new weapon to tackle sieges and hijackings.
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England); 10/23/2005; 700+ words ; ...specifically to 'take out' terrorists involved in hijackings and sieges when a peaceful outcome is not possible. Rounds fired from...Super Magnums, which were bought particularly with airport sieges in mind. 'This rifle's power is awesome. It can take out...
Sieges d'Afrique Noire du Musee Barbier-Mueller.(exhibition preview)
Magazine article from: African Arts; 3/22/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...prevalent in museum and private collections today. (1) These seats of authority dominate the selection of objects on exhibit in "Sieges d'Afrique Noire du Musee Barbier-Mueller" (Sub-Saharan African Seats from the Barbier-Mueller Museum). Of the eighty...