The capitulation was a predetermined policy; but the courage and pertinacity of the besieger must be tested to the utmost before the gates can be finally thrown open.
In each case capitulation is agreed upon if only the besieger is sufficiently gallant and persistent.
The besieger does not find the city waiting with open gates to welcome him.
Footnote 40: In this figure the parts coloured red indicate the works occupied by the besieger and the direction of his fire.
A few moments afterwards, a second troop of four hundred men attacked the two batteries, 2 and 3; and the besieger having been dislodged from battery No.
That same night, however, the besieger had been able to start his second parallel; but he was evidently embarrassed on his right, and was modifying his plan on this side.
Rincourt took advantage of the respite allowed him by the besieger to organize his little garrison more effectually.
But as the range of siege pieces in the present day extends to eight or nine thousand yards, the conditions both for the besieged and the besieger are very different.
Forty-eight hours at least were required to enable the besieger to restore batteries 2 and 3.
Philostratus remarked that a daring besieger might run in towards the west, between the river and the city, and attempt an assault towards the salient of the west front, which commanded a rather gentle escarpment.
But on the night of the 20th February the plans of the besieger had to be modified.
On the 18th the besieger had terminated his earthwork as far as the point I, and there he brought up a veuglaire to dismount the flank culverin C.
The abbey resisted for more than two hours after the besieger had taken the retrenchment.
The besieger had at this point from twelve to fifteen hundred men to protect the workmen.
During the 24th of the month there was scarcely any firing on either side, the besieger firing only at long intervals.
The wild waves of the German ocean, lashed by the wintry gales, would often sweep over the painfully constructed works of besiegerand besieged and destroy in an hour the labour of many weeks.
The winter now set in with severe sleet, and snow, and rain, and furious tempests lashing the sea over the works of besieger and besieged, and for weeks together paralyzing all efforts of either army.
It is the duty of the besieged to indicate these buildings by visible signs, notified to the besieger beforehand.
The divine names were those of the Defender and Keeper, his was that of the Besieger of Cities.
The Besieger of the world is at last besieged; every cruelty he has inflicted upon men is now to be turned upon himself.
As we learn from the prophets and now still more from herself, Assyria was the great Besieger of Men.
If not interfered with by the defenders the besieger can advance in this way until he reaches the counterscarp.
As soon as the overcharged mines of the besieger have been fired, a heavy fire should be brought to bear on the craters, and if possible sorties should be made to prevent the enemy occupying them.
In the present day the same object is attained by pushing out detached forts to such a distance from the town they are protecting that the besieger cannot bombard the town as long as he is outside the forts.
The line of contravallation was the line of parapet and trench sometimes made by the besieger all round the town he was attacking, to check the sorties of the garrison.
Hitherto the wall had sufficed for this purpose, the ditch being useful mainly to prevent the besieger from bringing up his engines of attack.
At the same time every effort should be made underground to surround with galleries, and as it were isolate, the craters so as to prevent the besieger making a new advance from them.
The circumvallation was a line of parapet which the besieger made outside the investing position of his own force, to protect it when there was a chance of attack by a relieving army.
The besieger therefore could place his guns close to the walls, with only the protection of a few large gabions filled with earth, set up on the ground on either side of the muzzle.
When a besieger has arrived by means of trenches within a certain distance of the enemy's works without having subdued their fire, he may find that the advance by sap becomes too slow and too dangerous.
At the commencement of the subterranean war the main object of the defence is to force the besieger to take to mining operations as early as possible, as it is a tedious operation and will prolong the siege.
The trenches or lines made by a besieger parallel to the general defence of a place, for the purpose of connecting and supporting his several approaches.
In fortification, an established footing, such as a besieger makes by throwing up hasty cover, against the fire of the defenders, on any freshly gained post.
The earthworks by which a besieger approaches a fortified place; generally half sunk in the ground, the other half formed by the excavated earth thrown, as a parapet, to the front.
In fortification, to crown is to effect a lodgment on the top of; thus, the besieger crowns the covered way when he occupies with his trenches the crest of the glacis.
The besieger was directing his attacks against the upper part.
The mounds of dead between besieged and besiegermade the advance difficult.
Moreover the number of defenders was insufficient to garrison the extensive precincts of Saguntum, while the besiegerhad at his disposal an immense armed multitude which could hurl itself against several places at once.
In fact, in Paris he has half promised the besieger not to say anything about her past.
The besieger of London, feeling that her game is up, leaves them together.
But at the same instant an agile besieger who, unnoticed, had crossed the Rubicon, darted from his concealment, and dashed by Gabriel into the room.
The besiegerand besieged measured each other with a look.
The very presence of such persons may accelerate the surrender of the place in certain circumstances, and it would therefore be foolish of a besieger to renounce voluntarily this advantage.
The besieger will have to consider for himself the question whether the very absence of notification may not be itself a factor of success, by means of surprise, and indeed whether notification will not mean a loss of precious time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "besieger" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
