(21) Sieges allow armies to keep the enemy geographically contained in urban areas and to prevent their resupply while minimizing the
besieger's own casualties by avoiding direct combat.
This last feeble band left the castle in the belief that they were about to join their families and fellow townsfolk beyond the French lines; but as they approached the
besiegers the line did not open up for them.
Suddenly a twitter ran through the
besiegers, which in no time escalated into agitated body movements.
It is they who were the
besiegers of Aleppo and Ghouta, killing thousands of civilians in the process.
The siege continued for six months but the fort held till May 1806 - when, due to scarcity of water and provisions, the
besiegers left.
It was also plain that there would be fury in the Security Council when the
besiegers administered the coup de grace.
On October 18, 1644, the Scottish
besiegers made ready to storm the walls of Newcastle still resolutely if pointlessly held for King Charles by the mayor John Marley.
Ultimately, the desperate
besiegers of Troy returned to pick him up, since, according to a prophecy, Philoctetes's his archery skills, given to him by the gods, were supposed to decide about the victory in the Trojan War.
This symmetric representation is carried out in "Some bomb shelters shelter people, some shelter bombs" (Figure 2) as well as in numerous other infographics, where the radically disproportionate power differential and spatial disparity between a besieged population confined to an enclave and its
besiegers is depicted as if the two camps were equal and enjoyed the same military and spatial capabilities.
(50) Comparison with other sieges in the Res Gestae reveals in which context Ammianus chooses to draw his readers' attention to the numbers of combatants: during the Persian campaigns of 359/360 he willingly records the small numbers of Roman defenders with precise figures, (51) whereas the attacking Persians are left comparatively and vaguely huge, (52) but when the tables are turned and the Romans are the
besiegers then no details are provided for either side.
(1) Formerly, the nominal status of "approach" had been purely military: "In fortification, the several works made by the
besiegers for advancing or getting nearer to a fortress" (Chambers 1:119).
"The bad attitude of the Electricity Company's directorate of targeting Beirutis by taking them hostage to blackout won't succeed in the face of their
besiegers or invaders," Qabbani concluded.
