The fall of Kassala soon after, by setting free the besieging force, enabled Osman still further to strengthen his position in the neighbourhood of Souakim.
On the south and east sides, fronting the fortifications, were the camps of the besieging armies of Wad en Nejumi and Abu Girgeh.
The project was conceived in the besieging camp to seize and occupy those heights.
The besieging force, in the mean time, was daily augmented by recruits and volunteers, and now amounted to about fifteen thousand men distributed at various points.
The situation of the New England army, actually besieging Boston, became an early and absorbing consideration.
Eugene, the Prussians having joined him, moves down towards Philipsburg and its cannonading; encamps close to rearward of the besieging French.
Officials of every degree were continually trying to undermine and supplant one another, besieging the minister with mutual charges.
A squadron of Cossacks about two hundred strong was at that moment besieging some fifty Chunchuses in a farm three miles away.
The Japanese were pressing northward; should Port Arthur fall, the besieging army would be able to strengthen Marshal Oyama's forces in the field.
Day by day, however, the besieging force drew closer and closer round the city.
Richard and Robert sat at the head of the table, one on each side of Harold, and all his other boy and girl friends sat down the sides of the table, and he told them all about his adventure with the besieging King.
What triumph for your city to capture me, the besieging War-Lord!
The Lord Mayor and the Librarian were waiting to receive them, and crowds of people thronged the street to catch a glimpse of the War-Lord, who for nearly a week had been besieging their city without firing a shot since that first day.
The besieging army was divided into three divisions.
It seemed to Anthony as if it all were hostile--as though the whole outdoors were besieging this house.
Yet he knew that his power was besieging her on every side.
Boabdil assembled his council, and with a dejected countenance laid before it the articles of capitulation as the best that could be obtained from the besieging foe.
He noted also every place where the camp might be assailed with advantage, and gave the besieging army no repose night or day.
He represented the difficulty of besieging Malaga with their present force, especially as their plans had been discovered and anticipated, and the whole country was marching to oppose them.
Before laying siege to this redoubtable city, however, it was deemed necessary to secure the neighboring city of Velez Malaga and its dependent places, which might otherwise harass the besieging army.
The king after the capture of Illora had removed his camp before the fortress of Moclin, with an intention of besieging it.
Encouraged by this success, the Moors attempted a general attack upon the camp, the mines, and the besieging fleet.
Spurring his horse up a craggy height which commanded an extensive view, he beheld, to his consternation, the country about Ronda white with the tents of a besieging army.
While he was yet besieging the obstinate citadel, tidings were brought him that King Ferdinand was in full march with a powerful host to its assistance.
Hardly an officer or soldier among the besieging forces knew what it was to sleep.
Crovier understands this to signify that the Romans did not employ a greater force for besieging Antium, than they had employed the preceding year, and which at that time seemed insufficient for the purpose.
The tribunes refrained from besieging the town, both because [the result] was uncertain, and they considered that the war should not be pushed to the total destruction of the colony.
Then press boldly on the walls of the enemy, mindful that the victory is granted to you by these fates which are now revealed over that city which thou art besieging for so many years.
The defenders, however, were not idle, and several sorties were made with a view of dislodging the besieging force from the new positions it had taken up.
Lady Catherine lay in sanctuary there while Warbeck and his adherents marched on London--only to take refuge in flight on the approach of Henry VII’s troops when he was engaged in besieging Exeter.
Great gaps remained in the line, and a daring and skilful foe might cut the besieging force asunder.
Certainly the Southern flags had a right to wave defiance at the besieging army, which was now slowly and painfully rising from the snow, and lighting the fires anew.
Fresh supplies of ammunition and food were brought up, and it became obvious to Dick that the daring commander meant to attack Donelson, even should its garrison outnumber his own besieging force.
As well as they could surmise, the garrison, like the besieging army, was seeking shelter and rest, and from this fact the keen mind of Colonel Arthur Winchester divined that the defense was confused and headless.
Foremost among the leaders of the besieging party was the Bishop of Orleans, Dupanloup, a man of many winning characteristics and of great oratorical power.
Whilst the officers of the Great King were engaged in besieging him, Artaxerxes himself nearly lost his life in an unfortunate campaign against the Cadusians.
Cyaxares, according to Herodotus, took the field successfully against Nineveh, but as he was besieging the city the inroad of the “Scythians” compelled him to forego for a time all the fruits of victory.
Of course since the Scythians themselves were besieging Nineveh, this could not be.
He delivers Jabesh-Gilead from the besieging Ammonites, and assisted by his son Jonathan, conducts a successful war against the Philistines.
There was an Ophellas of Cyrene, who advanced at the head of an army along the coast, to unite himself to Agathocles, who was then besieging Carthage, B.
It is joined to the continent by a mound, which Alexander raised, when he was besieging it.
In this desperate situation they resolved to make an attempt to break through the besieging lines, and make their escape to Athens.
The sound of the falling tile alarmed the guards in the towers, and soon the wholebesieging force was in a commotion.
But at this very moment a little cloud was approaching from the east, which was fraught with disaster and ruin to the besieging army.
In the sea-fight which followed the Corcyraeans gained a complete victory, and on the same day Epidamnus was compelled to capitulate to the besieging force.
Al-Alfi was at that time besieging Damanhur, and he gained a signal victory over the pasha's troops; but the dissensions of the beys destroyed their last chance of a return to power.
While these scenes were being enacted, al-Alfi was besieging Damanhur, and the other beys were returning towards Cairo, Khorshid having called them to his assistance; but Mehemet Ali forced them to retreat.
In April 1801 the British army besieging Alexandria cut through the land between Aboukir and the lake, admitting the waters of the sea into the ancient bed of Mareotis and laying under water a large area then in cultivation.
The Saracens are besieging Jaffa, and the place must be lost unless assistance arrives in a day or two.
Thence a passage a quarter of a mile long leads to the little chapel standing in the hollow, and which, being hidden among the trees, would be unobserved by any party besieging the castle.
The ports of Rostock, Warnemunde, and the town of Wismar were all occupied by the Imperialists, who were also engaged in besieging Stralsund.
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