What is "besiegers"

Usage examples of "besiegers".

As soon as he returned the States requested him to endeavour to throw in another convoy, as Count Mansfelt was marching to swell the force of the besiegers, and, after his arrival it would be well nigh impossible to send further aid into the town.

So diligently did the besiegers work that before a week had passed after the surprise of the fort the batteries were completed, thirty-two guns placed in position, and the garrison, seeing there was no hope of relief, surrendered.

Between five and six hundred of the besiegers were killed during the course of the siege.

Three thousand soldiers laboured incessantly at the works, which were intended not only to isolate the city, but to defend the besiegers from any attack that might be made upon them by a relieving army.

The fire of the besiegers was now so heavy that the soldiers were forced to dig underground quarters to shelter themselves.

Thence he sent intelligence to the besiegers of all that took place in the town, placing his letters at night in an old boat sunk in the mud on the bank of the Old Haven, a Spaniard wading across at low tide and fetching them away.

Vere and his officers leapt from their beds and rushed to the walls, and after a fierce struggle the besiegers were driven back.

Bucquoy, and just as the night had fairly set in the besiegers rushed to the assault from all points.

On the 4th of October the besiegers opened with nine mortars and thirty-seven pieces of cannon from the land side, and sixteen from the water.

They continued to play for several days, with little effect, and the anxiety of the French admiral to leave the coast, at a season of the year when it is particularly perilous to shipping to remain, determined the besiegers to risk everything upon an assault.

The flames began to rage, the besiegers were on the alert, guarding every passage, and no longer hopeful of Rawdon, McPherson hung out the white flag imploring mercy.

He brought no force with him to promote the object of the besiegers, and his stay was limited to a brief interview.

Mitylene slowed to that static phase wherein the besiegers simply sat and waited for the besieged to starve, Lucius Licinius Lucullus finally found time to write to his beloved Sulla.

Sertorius and Perperna had turned up with thirty thousand men and sat back to pick off the Roman besiegers in much the same way as Sertorius had dealt with Pompey before Pallantia.

But for the blazing stars shining down like the fires of a celestial host encamped, the besiegers would not have had enough light to find their way.