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Noun Concept
Categories: Siege warfare, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference, Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Articles with short description, Warfare of the Middle Ages
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siege  besieging  beleaguering  military blockade  Barricade situation
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The action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack WordNet 3.0
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The action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
A siege is a military blockade of a city, or fortress, with the intent of conquering by attrition, or by well-prepared assault. Wikipedia
Military blockade and assault of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering. For a list of sieges, see list of sieges. Wikipedia Disambiguation
A prolonged military assault on a blockade of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition. OmegaWiki
The act by which a place is besieged. Wiktionary
A prolonged military assault or a blockade of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition. Wiktionary
IS A
blockade
tactics
HAS PART
NL
berenning
PART OF
war
Battle of Fort Sumter
HAS KIND
Poliorcetica
Siege warfare in antiquity
CS
Obléhání ve středověku
ES
Sitiar plazas
Siegecraft in Ancient Greece
+5 relations
HAS INSTANCE
Alamo
Battle of Puebla
Orleans
Petersburg
Syracuse
+2K relations
CATEGORY DOMAIN
military
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Paulys Realenzyklopädie der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft
Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus
Sytin Military Encyclopedia
DIFFERENT FROM
blockade
lockout
HISTORY OF TOPIC
BE
Гісторыя аблогі
MODEL ITEM
Orleans
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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siege, besieging, beleaguering, military blockade
Wikipedia
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siege
Wikidata
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siege
Wiktionary
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besieging, siege
OmegaWiki
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siege
Wikipedia Redirections
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Barricade situation, besiege, besieged city, besieging, Fortification and Siege Warfare, Fortification and siegecraft, police siege, Police standoff, relief column, Seige, Seige tactics, Seige warfare, SIEGE, siege warfare, siege works, siegecraft, sieges, siegeworks
Wikidata Alias
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