Sentence examples for while besieging from inspiring English sources

Montfort was killed while besieging the city.

Süleyman himself died while besieging the fortress of Szigetvár in Hungary.

He was killed by a cannonball while besieging the fortress of Kalinjar in central India.

While besieging the insurgent general in Milan, Gallienus was murdered by his senior officers; his cavalry commander, Claudius, succeeded him as Claudius II.

Sancho's triumph was short-lived, for he was killed while besieging the rebel fortress-city of Zamora, held by his sister Urraca in Alfonso's name.

Things get under way as Richard the Lionheart is killed while besieging a French castle, supposedly heading home to England from the crusades.

Matilda and Robert landed at Arundel in September 1139, and she was for a short while besieged in the castle.

He built a story around the idea of walking a tightrope while besieged by monkeys, and turned the Tramp into the accidental star of a circus.

Yet he stands tall and is a good, decent and intelligent man trying to make his way and do good -- while besieged by chaos in his own US Congress.

Additional troops continued to arrive, and by May, the garrison was 26,000 strong, while the besieging French forces had risen to 25,000.

While Sennacherib was besieging the city of Lachish, Hezekiah sought to spare Jerusalem itself from capture by paying a heavy tribute of gold and silver to the Assyrian king, who nevertheless demanded the city's unconditional surrender.