In besieging Besieging Bayonne , Alfonso the Battler was perhaps hoping to persuade the Count of Toulouse to switch Change allegiance to him and aid Assistance him in his war in Castile .

While still besieging Besieging Bayonne ( `` in obsessione Baione '' ) , Alfonso drafted Writing his will in October 1131 : it contains Containing the last datable reference to the siege Besieging .

at first the besieging force was commanded Control by krum 's brother ( whose name is not mentioned in the primary sources ) .

The city managed Control to repel Carthaginian attacks Attack until a relief army from Syracuse defeated Conquering part of the besieging Carthaginian army and lifted Body_movement the siege of the city .

Unable to break Bodily_harm through the besieging army , Boiditzes , the commander of the breached section privately attempted to negotiate Communication with the Caliph without notifying his superiors .

During the summer of 1644 , the Covenanters and Parliamentarians had been besieging Besieging York , which was defended Defending by the Marquess of Newcastle .

He therefore committed Commitment his main strength to besieging Besieging the city , leaving Departing the front line only thinly held Defending .

The Boers were well armed Bearing_arms and struck Attack first , besieging Ladysmith , Kimberley , and Mahikeng in early 1900 , and winning important battles at Colenso , Magersfontein and Stormberg .

Afghan forces working at the base reported Reporting this , resulting in Causation outraged Afghans besieging Besieging Bagram AFB , raining Damaging it with petrol bombs and stones .

Union forces Causation then retired Escaping to Chattanooga while the Confederates occupied Control the surrounding Surrounding heights , besieging Besieging the city .

A more powerful force ( mainly British , but with some local Norwegian units ) was detached Departing from the expeditionary force besieging Besieging Narvik to northern and central Nordland in the middle of May .

When this order Request became Becoming known Know in the city , the inhabitants quickly made contact Communication with the commanders of the besieging Swedish forces , Arvid Västgöte and Peder Hansson .

At that time the Ottomans were already besieging Besieging the fortress of Svetigrad , stretching Skanderbeg 's efforts thin .

Continental Army and militia forces under the command Control of General John Sullivan had been besieging Besieging the British forces in Newport , Rhode Island , which is situated Placing on Aquidneck Island , but they had finally abandoned GiveUp their siege and were withdrawing Escaping to the northern part of the island .

The intent was to attack Attack the besieging Parliamentarians from both sides , Charles mistakenly believing Know that Poyntz had failed to follow Motion them .

although langdale drove Motion poyntz off , the parliamentarians besieging chester sent Sending reinforcements , and langdale was forced Causation to retreat Escaping to rowton heath , closer to chester , and wait for his own reinforcements .

In 340 BC Demosthenes convinced Convincing the Athenian assembly to sanction Revenge action against Philip 's territories and to ally with the Achaemenids in Byzantium , which Philip was besieging Besieging .

Ironically , the besieging Besieging army included Cause_to_be_included a contingent from the Byzantine Empire , which by then was a vassal of the Ottomans .

However , Manuel seems to have retracted Agree_or_refuse_to_act his promise Commitment , since it was not until 1390 that Bayezid summoned Request the two leaders of the civil war , John VII and Manuel II , and ordered Arranging them to accompany Motion the besieging Besieging force .

In response Trajan again marched Self_motion into Dacia , besieging Besieging the Dacian capital in the Siege of Sarmizegetusa , and razing Destroying it .

At the start Process_start of the siege , Gibraltar was garrisoned by around 2,000 Dutch , English , Austrian and pro-Habsburg Spanish troops facing a besieging force of up to 8,000 French , pro-Bourbon Spanish and Irish troops .

The defenders were able to hold off Defending the numerically superior besieging force through exploiting Gibraltar 's geography and the small town 's fortifications , though they were frequently short of manpower and ammunition .

The siege lasted Process_end through the winter of 827–828 and until summer , during which time the besieging forces suffered Bodily_harm greatly from lack of food and an outbreak of an epidemic , which claimed Statement the life of their commander , Asad ibn al-Furat .