However, it's conceivable that many of them may have been sustained through siege warfare.
Seventy articles of the Geneva conventions were breached in the two separate months of siege warfare.
Josephus, a Jewish renegade with the Roman legions, describes the horror of siege warfare in Jerusalem in AD70.
Spinola continued to do battle with Maurice of Nassau and to exhibit his mastery of siege warfare.
That provision could offer respite from siege warfare, which has been a main weapon of the government.
(The rest of the 120 defenders had been killed). Observing the "rules" of siege warfare, the Turks took no prisoners.
But they also improved a third type of warfare the siege, or, more properly, poliorcetics, the art of both fortification and siege warfare.
Since the autumn of 1914, the fighting on the Western Front had become a form of siege warfare on a previously unimagined scale.
The development of powerful cannons in the 15th century brought about a reappraisal of fortification design and siege warfare in Europe and parts of Asia.
The chemical attack was just his most recent atrocity, after years of torture, enforced disappearances, siege warfare and indiscriminate bombing of civilian neighborhoods and hospitals.
Politically also, Venezuelan society, in the throes of its 21st century socialist revolution, has some features of the siege warfare of previous eras.
