Sentence examples for begin the siege of from inspiring English sources

As the music plays, dancers line up in facing rows to begin the "Siege of Ennis".

In May 1992, Mr. Mladic ordered his forces to begin the siege of Sarajevo, cutting off all electricity, food and water to the city.

It doesn't matter if you don't know the story of Iphigenia – the daughter of Greek general Agamemnon and his wife Clytemnestra – who is sacrificed simply in order to becalm the sea so that the Greek forces can set sail from Aulis to begin the siege of Troy.

September 4 – the English begin the siege of Calais.

Several towns and castles fell as the Russians advanced, and on 28 October 1632 (the same day that the historic town of Dorogobuzh was taken), Shein moved to begin the siege of Smolensk.

In 1102 he returned to Syria, took Tortosa (Ṭarṭūs), and began the siege of Tripoli.

By mid-October a growing revolutionary army, initially commanded by Austin, had begun the siege of San Antonio.

In May 1992, less than a month after Dr Karadzic and General Mladic began the siege of Sarajevo, Yugoslav troops inside the city were themselves surrounded by Bosnian forces.

3 The Athenians began the siege of Salamis and were making daily assaults, but the soldiers in the city, supplied as they were with missiles and matériel, were with ease warding off the besiegers from the walls.

After their victory, Alcibiades and Thrasybulus began the siege of Chalcedon in 409 BC with about 190 ships.

When Montgomery finally began the siege of Fort Saint-Jean, he ordered Allen and about 30 Americans to join with Livingston's Canadians to secure the south bank of the St . LawrenceRiver against attempts by Carleton in Montreal to relieve the siege.