During the siege of Jerusalem by Pompey, the legal sacrifices existed, according to Josephus (Arch.
They lay siege against us, they smite the judge of Israel with the rod upon the cheek.
It is true that, during the last siege by the Romans, when matters had come to an extremity, Johannes ordered the sacrifices to be discontinued.
The weather was fighting for him, and the besiegers had before them only the alternatives of taking the place by storm or abandoning the siege altogether.
After the siegeof Fort Pitt was raised peace was patched up again.
The siege of St. John's was now pushed on by Montgomery with vigor.
General Greene, finding it useless any longer to continue the attempt, called off his troops, and on the following day raised the siege and marched away with all speed, having lost at least 300 men in the siege.
A few days after the raising of the siege the French fleet was dispersed by a tempest, and Count D'Estaing, with the majority of the ships under his command, returned to France.
In making this offer the colonel was influenced partly by motives of policy, as the stock of provisions was exceedingly scanty, and he feared that they would not last if the siege should be a long one.
Arnold's force had been much weakened by the hardships that they had undergone, Montgomery's by desertions; the batteries which they erected were overpowered by the fire of the defenders, and the siege made no progress whatever.
It is quite clear that as long as the siege is kept up we cannot get back again, and there is no saying how long it may last.
Thus the garrison were for the rest of the siege without protection from the rain and night air, but all risk of a fire, which might have caused the consumption of their stores, was avoided.
I would a thousand times rather go through a siege here, and risk the worst, than go down to Gloucester and have the frightful anxiety of not knowing what was happening here.
This is a tale of the siege of Boston, which opens on the day after the doings at Lexington and Concord, with a description of home life in Boston, introduces the reader to the British camp at Charlestown, shows Gen.
At the Siege of Havana" deals with that portion of the island's history when the English king captured the capital, thanks to the assistance given by the troops from New England, led in part by Col.
A good account of it can be found in 'The true narrative of thesiege and capture by storm of the city of Pilsen in Bohemia, 1619.
The siegeguns were still unwieldy and uncertain in their aim, and the defence of fortified places was proportionably stronger than the attack.
All the fugitives who were capable of bearing arms were employed in severe siege service; the nobility also of the neighbourhood sometimes assisted.
If the siege lingered long, the high prices were followed by shameless usury, the millers ground only for the rich, and the bakers made exorbitant demands.
The fall of Jerusalem was now impending: the victor advancing with speed equal to his hatred, laidsiege to the city, and erecting his machines, with sacrilegious irreverence profaned all the holy places.
And the rich King of Connaught Summoned to him The Irish of all Ireland In order to lay siege to Dublin.
The siege of Limbourg, however, now wholly absorbed his attention; for it was a stronghold on which the utmost faith was pinned by the military science of the States.
Now, fire in hand, and burning to destroy, The fierce Rutulians still the siege maintain.
The forts which defend it would require a considerable number of men to man them properly; and I do not think the place could hold out many hours before such artillery as the Germans use in their siege operations.
The lines were full of infantry; and redoubts were constructed at intervals in which heavy siege artillery was placed; an encouraging sight, as it seemed certain that these defences must effectually check the Germans.
Whole sections of them were blown away, the air being filled with showers of human fragments, dismembered by the big shells from the siege guns.
If heavy siege guns could have been brought up they might have effected something; but as it was, not even light field artillery could be moved over the ground in any quantity.
Huge guns are very speedily worn out, and are not, therefore, of much value except for particular purposes--chiefly the smashing of forts in siege operations.
Meanwhile they sent Nilus away and laid siege to the Castle of Sant' Angelo, where Crescenzio and his men had shut themselves up with a good store of food and arms.
The town was at once summoned to surrender, and upon Lindsay's refusal the guns were placed in position, and the siege began.
The siege will begin in the morning, and ere that time we must be there.
A few days later, however, Count Thurn, marching through Moravia and Upper Austria, laid siege to Vienna.
I have served through the campaign," Malcolm replied, "and have seen some hard knocks given, as you may imagine when I tell you that I was at the siege of New Brandenburg.
On the 12th of October he reached Neuberg, on the Danube, and halted there, awaiting the arrival of his siege train from Donauworth.
He took part in the siege and capture of Marienburg and in the defeat of the Poles at Dirschau.
It was surrounded by a wall, interspersed with numerous towers, sufficiently strong to guard it against any surprise, but not to defend it against a regular siege by a numerous army.
Much as I should like to meet these traitors and to deal out to them the punishment they deserve, I cannot adventure on the siege of Egra until I have communicated this terrible news to the Swedish chancellor.
Ratisbon being left open by Altringer's disobedience to Wallenstein's orders, Duke Bernhard marched upon that city without opposition, and laidsiege to it.
I have no great store of provisions in the castle," the count said, "and although I deem it not likely that we shall have to stand a long siege we must be prepared for it.
It was under Havelock and Outram; and arrived when the siege had been going on for three months.
That night the memorable siege of the Residency--called the siege of Lucknow--began.
Nana Sahib's massacre of the surrendered garrison of Cawnpore occurred in June, and the long siege of Lucknow began.
The children imitated siege and defense in their play.
Six weeks after the beginning of the siege more than one-half of the original force of white soldiers was dead, and close upon three-fifths of the original native force.
This happened the year Cornwallis surrendered, and I actually served at the siege as the youngest ensign in my father's battalion.
Then I was present throughout, at the siege of Yorktown.
Hold the city for six days more at all costs, and on the seventh at the latest the siege shall be raised and the enemies of Britain destroyed in their own entrenchments.
The few Frenchmen who were sleeping outside of the house were quickly overcome and slain, and Angulo laid siege to the house itself, summoning Sores to surrender.
In 1500 he smelt powder at thesiege at Pisa, and was sent to France to allay the irritations of Louis XII.
As a responsible official in the camp before Pisa he had seen both siege work and fighting.
They ought to have care not to be taken by famine, and not to be overcome through assaultes: concernyng famin, it hath ben tolde, that it is requiset before the siege come, to be well provided of vitualles.
At Verona and Mantua in 1509, he closely studied the famous siege of Padua.
Once again, in the great siege that began in 1779 and lasted more than three years, England came dangerously near losing the fortress.
At the siege of Belleisle I was there all the while, All the while, all the while, at the siege of Belleisle.
During the siege of Charleston when the flag was shot down, Sergeant William Jasper at the peril of his life recovered it, and held it in place on the parapet until another staff was found.
But, oh, Mother, the poor Count died after all; he was shot at the siegeof Savannah in 1779.
After a siege of four days, during the last two of which the garrison was without water, the fort was surrendered.
General Pope was layingsiege to Island Number Ten, having already occupied New Madrid, and placed his gun-boats in front of that point.
When General Grant encamped his army at Milliken's Bend and Young's Point, preparatory to commencing the siege of Vicksburg, many of the cotton plantations were abandoned by their owners.
Before the siege was ended, our men had perfected themselves in the art of intrenching.
The jest became a reality in thesiege of Cincinnati.
When called away, he was preparing to lay siege to Fort Pillow, in order to open the river to Memphis.
We could not ascertain General Halleck's purpose in excluding us just as the campaign was closing, but concluded he desired we should not witness the end of the siege in which so much had been promised and so little accomplished.
The siege being raised, I returned to the plantation.
I believe he subsequently acted as a scout under General Halleck, during thesiege of Corinth.
A pontoon bridge was thrown across the Ohio, and continued there until the siege was ended.
Once seated where he had his antagonist's army inclosed, General Grant opened his lines to the Yazoo, supplied himself with every thing desired, and pressed the siege at his leisure.
During that siege we wondered whether it would be possible to extend our labors to Detroit or Mackinaw.
On the 25th of July the first siege of Vicksburg was raised.
At the time of his departure to re-enforce the army before Corinth, General Pope left but a single brigade of infantry, to act in conjunction with our naval forces in the siege of Fort Pillow.
The first siege of Vicksburg lasted but twenty days.
Meantime, General Kirby Smith moved, under Bragg's orders, to the siegeof Cincinnati.
A month's siegeand five desperate assaults left the castle still unwon when the French armies had gathered to relieve it: and the besiegers with muffled wheels stole away over the bridges in the night-time.
Moreover, the story of the greatest leaguer of all, is it not written in the book of the Chronicle of the Cid, and as famous in Spanish annals as the siege of Troy?
This basic idea had percolated from China through India to the Moors and Arabs, and in the course of a few centuries had developed into a crude artillery used by the Moors in the siege of Cordova in 1280.
The most admirable thing, and one which surely drew the blessing of Heaven upon Quebec was that during the whole siegeno public devotion was interrupted.
This picture was not touched by the balls and bullets, and was restored after the siege to the Ursulines, to whom it belonged.
A famine which followed the siegetried the whole colony, and Laval had to suffer by it as well as the seminary, for neither had hesitated before the sacrifices necessary for the general weal.
Here we waited five days, worried with picket and guard duty, waiting for the siege guns being brought from Delhi by elephants.
Yet that noble man Lawrence went and raised a body of Sikhs and Afghans, our old foes, and with them aided the few Europeans to crush the rebellion, and at the siege of Delhi gained the crowning victory.
Ah, my dear, that tells about a very famous and glorious thing that happened long ago at the siege of Leyden.
God bless thee, my brave little heart, and grant that our siege be not a long one before help comes to us!
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