The two sieges allowed him some remarkable opportunities of signalizing his personal valor, which, in the improved state of the military art, can seldom be exerted by a prudent general.
The event of the two former sieges elated their confidence, and exasperated the haughty spirit of the Great King, who advanced a third time towards Nisibis, at the head of the united forces of Persia and India.
Such a measure is so natural, so inherent in common sense, that Paris twice asked to be put on rations during the two sieges which it underwent in 1871.
Revolutions and sieges form curious episodes in the life of the foreign merchants in the Republic.
Footnote 60: The account of these sieges is given by Ammianus, xx.
At the expense of an anachronism, and as a fair sample of the rest, we shall present that, as one of the most prominent Indian sieges recorded in these early annals.
Skippon, Astley, Goring, Rupert, and many others soon to be famous were distinguished as company and regimental officers in the battles and sieges of Germany and the Low Countries.
In sieges a sum of money was paid for each piece put in battery, and the grand master was not subordinated to the war office.
Cromwell in his siegesmade great use of shells, 12-inch and even larger mortars being employed.
During the sieges of Augusta and Cambridge, the patriotic enthusiasm that prevailed among the people prompted to numerous acts of personal risk and sacrifice.
Gustavus), he had a great share in the famous crossing of the frozen Belts, and at the sieges of Copenhagen and Kronborg he directed the engineers.
The siege was that of Mons, which was, like many sieges in the former wars, conducted with much pomp by Louis XIV.
In marked contrast to the sieges of the continent, this was resisted by the townsmen themselves, under the leadership of the clergyman George Walker.
Both Maurice and William Lewis were still unwilling to run the risk of an attack on Spinola's army in its lines, and so the two sieges went on side by side, as it were independently.
So when the King and all the knights were come from service, the barons espied in the sieges of the Round Table all about, written with golden letters: "Here ought to sit he, and he ought to sit here.
We know not how it vanished, whether through wanton destruction or in one of the sieges in the seventeenth or the nineteenth century.
But these brave sieges were the cause of their destruction.
Many other castles could tell the story of similar sieges in the days when "the gallants of England were up for the King.
The town has stood several sieges and was the scene of terrible excesses in the religious wars of the sixteenth century, the abbey having been burned by the Protestants in 1567.
For six hundred years Castle Urquhart has frowned above the lake and about it has gathered a long history of romantic sieges and defenses, fading away into myth and legend.
Its isolation no doubt saved it from the endless sieges and consequent ruin that so many ancient strongholds underwent.
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