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31Siege of Kut — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Siege of Kut caption=Indian anti aircraft machine gunners in action during the siege. partof=the Mesopotamian Campaign (World War I) date=7 December 1915 ndash; 29 April 1916 place=Kut al Amara, Mesopotamia,… …
32Siege of Rhodes — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Siege of Rhodes partof=the Wars of the diadochi date=305 BC ndash; 304 BC place=Rhodes island result=Rhodian victory combatant1=Antigonid dynasty combatant2=Rhodes Ptolemaic dynasty Seleucid Empire… …
33siege — siegeable, adj. /seej/, n., v., sieged, sieging. n. 1. the act or process of surrounding and attacking a fortified place in such a way as to isolate it from help and supplies, for the purpose of lessening the resistance of the defenders and… …
34siege — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. investment, encirclement; besiegement, blockade, beleaguerment; period, long spell. See attack, restraint. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. offense, onslaught, assault; see attack 1 . III (Roget s 3… …
35siege — [[t]si͟ːʤ[/t]] sieges 1) N COUNT: also under N A siege is a military or police operation in which soldiers or police surround a place in order to force the people there to come out or give up control of the place. → See also state of siege We… …
36Siege of Tkvarcheli — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Siege of Tkvarcheli partof=the 1992 1993 War in Abkhazia caption= The town s power plant was bombed in the first days of the siege and the town had to live without electricity for nearly a year date=October 1992 …
37siege — 01. The [siege] of the town lasted until the people finally ran out of food, and had to surrender. 02. Over a million Soviet soldiers and civilians lost their lives during the [siege] of Stalingrad. 03. The army lay [siege] to the airport where… …
38Siege of Pembroke — The Siege of Pembroke took place in 1648 during the Second English Civil War. Background In April 1648, Parliamentarian troops in Wales, who had not been paid for a long time, staged a Royalist rebellion under the command of the Colonel John… …
39siege — n. 1 a a military operation in which an attacking force seeks to compel the surrender of a fortified place by surrounding it and cutting off supplies etc. b a similar operation by police etc. to force the surrender of an armed person. c the… …
40Siege of Acre (1799) — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Siege of Acre partof=the French invasion of Egypt campaign= caption= date=20 March 21 May, 1799 place=Acre, Israel casus= territory= result=Ottoman British victory combatant1=flagicon|Ottoman Empire|1453Ottoman… …
