When Alexander approached it, he found it precipitous on all sides against assault, and that the barbarians had collected provisions for a long siege.
Having taken all the cities between Miletus and Halicarnassus as soon as he approached them, he encamped near the latter city, at a distance from it of about five stades,[164] as if he expected a long siege.
Alexander, considering the strength of the place, and how unprepared he was to undertake a long siege, entered into an agreement with them, though not on the same terms as before.
Nashville, Chattanooga, and Decatur could stand a long siege, and these alone he regarded as of strategic importance.
After a long siege, Shah Husain came forth from Ispahan with all his court, and surrendered the sword and diadem of the Sufis into the hands of the Ghilzai (October 1722).
Surprised by the Spaniards in 1597, the city was recaptured from them after a long siege by Henry IV.
He ordered the fortifications of his capital to be repaired with all diligence, provided it with every necessary for sustaining a long siege, and received into the town a garrison of 2,000 Spaniards, under Don Philip de Sylva.
After throwing into this place the necessary supplies for a long siege, the latter attempted to open a new passage through Eichsfeld and Thuringia, into the territories of the League.
Prague was unprepared for an attack, and was too weakly garrisoned to sustain a long siege.
While these operations were carried on without the walls, the magistrates of Nuremberg were busily occupied in filling the magazines with provisions and ammunition for a long siege.
William first marched against Exeter, took it after a long siege, and drove the young sons of Harold over sea to Ireland.
Only London held out for King Aethelred, and stood a long siege, till its citizens learnt that their master had deserted them and fled over sea to the Duke of Normandy, whose sister Emma he had married.
Rouen was added to the rest of the duchy after a long siege of six months, in which half the population perished by hunger.
Some of us know too how much civilians have been encouraged in their endurance of a long siege by Colonel Dartnell's cheery example.
His difficulties show that though a soldier may get through the Boer lines, they are now tightening round us, and unless a British force strong enough to break through can be assembled quickly, we are in for a long siege here.
Ladysmith, so quiet and undemonstrative in its patient endurance of a long siege, goes wild at the sound.
It is the same it was in the beginning, seven months agoto get provisions for a long siege, then sit down and tire the English out.
While they 312 were endeavoring by a long siege to dislodge Count Magnus, who was holding the place with a small force, the Roman army came upon them, and they themselves were driven away and utterly exterminated.
He advanced from Ravenna and harassed the walls of Rome with a long siege.
XVII From this city, then, as we were saying, the 94 Getae returned after a long siege to their own land, enriched by the ransom they had received.
Yes, we could stand a long siege," assented Jerry.
And we can stand a long siege," added Brick, who was disposed to be cheerful.
The possession of these would mean, at the least, the power to endure a long siege of imprisonment.
He thought, says Anna Comnena, it was rash to attempt to succour a city whose fortifications had been ruined by a long siege, and whose only defenders were soldiers reduced to the lowest state of misery.
After enduring all the miseries of a long siege, the inhabitants of Jerusalem at length surrendered to the caliph Omar, who himself came into Palestine to receive the keys and the submission of the conquered city.
Nineveh, the giant city, fell after a long siege (605).
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