Moynahan's account of the first Leningrad performance is memorable, and his book also provides a perspective on Russia today: Vladimir Putin, whose father was severely wounded during the siege, is "himself an echo from the violent past".
The Dauphin's army advanced on Montreuil, forcing Norfolk to raise the siege; Henry himself returned to England at the end of September 1544, ordering Norfolk and Suffolk to defend Boulogne.
Parks Commissioner Henry J. Stern found himself under siege yesterday as he defended himself in an impromptu, chaotic news conference in the City Hall rotunda against federal charges of racial discrimination in his department.
The hostage-takers in Beslan have claimed allegiance to Shamil Basayev, the leader of the 1995 siege, who is himself known to have some links with international terrorists.
With a verdict imminent, Mr. Blagojevich has become a governor under siege, keeping to himself for days at a time, refusing to answer questions about Mr. Rezko, and has fewer and fewer allies, even in his own party.
To defeat the rebellion, Walter was required to lay siege to Marlborough Castle himself.
During the siege he restricted himself to passive defence, refusing to sally forth from the walls even when Belisarius, who had returned from the east and landed with reinforcements at the nearby Portus Romanus, ordered him to do so.
Two days after relieving the siege, Franco proclaimed himself Caudillo ("chieftain", the Spanish equivalent of the Italian Duce and the German Führer), while forcibly unifying the various and diverse falangist, Royalist, and other elements within the Nationalist cause.
The Russian commanders had ample experience in siege operations; Paskevich himself had captured at least six fortified cities in his career, including the capture of Erevan and Abbas-Abbad Fortress in the Russo-Persian War of 1826 and the battle of Akhalzic and siege of Kars during the Russo-Turkish War of 1828.
Then he meets himself after the siege, "older than old," and he tells himself, alluding to Dante, "I did not know death hath undone so much".
