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    ended with the surrender of the besieged area. Alexander the Great's army successfully besieged many powerful cities during his conquests. Two of his...
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  • Besieged City (Chinese: 圍城) is a 2008 Hong Kong film directed by Lawrence Ah Mon. It has a Category III rating in Hong Kong. Elizabeth Kerr wrote in The...
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  • the original on 2016-02-22. Retrieved 2016-01-25. Besieged at IMDb Besieged at Box Office Mojo Besieged Archived 2020-09-29 at the Wayback Machine at urbancinefile...
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    assaults against the besieged city or to construct further earthworks nearer to the city. A circumvallation may be constructed if the besieging army is threatened...
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  • He was the 26th ruling Steward of Gondor, committing suicide in the besieged city of Minas Tirith during the Battle of the Pelennor Fields. Denethor is...
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  • Oriental Black Magic (2007) Fatal Move (2008) Hong Kong Bronx (2008) Besieged City (2008) The Forbidden Legend Sex & Chopsticks (2008) The Forbidden Legend...
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    Below is the list of cities which were besieged by the Ottoman Empire....
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    branded a coward. Losing numbers through desertion and starvation in the besieged city, the crusaders attempted to negotiate surrender but were rejected. Bohemond...
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    Orange Free State, during the campaign by the British to relieve the besieged city Ladysmith during the initial months of the Second Boer War. The battle...
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    before it fell to separatists and wrote a couple of reports from the besieged city, The shelling of Sokhumi is the most disgusting thing in this war ....
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    Bosnian War. After it was initially besieged by the forces of the Yugoslav People's Army, the city was then besieged by the Army of Republika Srpska. Lasting...
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    first dedicated to Lenin, it was eventually submitted in honor of the besieged city of Leningrad, where it was first played under dire circumstances on...
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    the Germans reached the Neva River. On 8 September, the road to the besieged city was severed when the Germans reached Lake Ladoga at Shlisselburg, leaving...
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    in Bern on September 10, 1948, and in the city she wrote her third novel, A cidade sitiada (The Besieged City, 1946). In Switzerland, in Bern, I lived...
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  • Kurdistan and the Syria–Turkey border, a few kilometers far from the besieged city of Kobanî, among the Kurdish leftist defenders of democratic autonomous...
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  • Besieged is a Christian metal band from Saginaw and Bay City, Michigan. The band was formed by drummer Josh Schroeder, the only member in every line-up...
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  • shore, with a long trail of trucks bringing food and supplies to the besieged city and evacuating citizens on their way back. Both the food and the civilian...
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    several scenes and actual footage of snipers harassing residents of the besieged city. 1998 television movie Shot Through the Heart produced by HBO, depicts...
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    nearby areas including Këlcyrë, Zagorie and Pogon his forces besieged the southern city of Gjirokastër, capital of the sanjak of Albania. At nearby Këlcyrë...
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    had allowed the entry of some companies of imperial troops. The city of Trier was besieged and largely destroyed. William III had feared that 's-Hertogenbosch...
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    The estimated 5,000–15,000 civilians who attempted to evacuate the besieged city via the N-340 coastal Málaga–Almería road were subjected to bombing...
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    Naples) was besieged for three weeks before the imperial troops forced their way in during November. The largely barbarian Roman army sacked the city. Belisarius...
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    told the militants which they say are not Marawinians to leave the besieged city and insist that Islam respects values and respects humanity. Sheik Abehuraira...
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    four more months of fighting, during which Paris was continuously besieged. With the city fully encircled, the Parisian garrison attempted three unsuccessful...
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    where he reported on Muammar Gaddafi's counterattack and later from the besieged city of Misurata. Vittert covered Operation Pillar of Cloud, the 2012 war...
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    24-to-30-pound (11 to 14 kg) bomb, designed to be dropped over the besieged city via a time fuse. The majority of the balloons were launched from land...
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    battlement, bestowed upon the soldier who first climbed the wall of a besieged city or fortress to successfully place the standard (flag) of the attacking...
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    prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Byzantine–Sasanian War: The besieged city of Alexandria is captured by the Persians. Nicetas, cousin of Emperor...
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    Charles of Bourbon needed to conquer the city swiftly to avoid the risk of being trapped between the besieged city and the League's army. On 6 May, the Imperial...
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  • lasted for a year and nine days, from 2 March 537 to 12 March 538. The city was besieged by the Ostrogothic army under their king Vitiges; the defending East...
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