A siege is a military tactic in which an army surrounds a fortified location, such as a city or castle, in order to cut off essential supplies and force the defenders to surrender. During a siege, the attacking force typically uses various strategies, such as blockades, bombardments, and mining, to weaken the defenses of the besieged location. The goal of a siege is to compel the defenders to capitulate due to a lack of resources or the imminent threat of a successful breach of their defenses. Sieges have been a common method of warfare throughout history, with notable examples including the Siege of Constantinople and the Siege of Leningrad.
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A siege engine is a device that is designed to break or circumvent city walls and other fortifications in siege warfare.
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The definition of siege warfare can be described as a military operation involving the surrounding and blockading of a town, castle or fortress by an army attempting to capture it - to lay siege or to besiege. The term derives from the Middle English word 'sege' from the Old French meaning seat, blockade.
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The plural of siege is sieges.
Siege engines, catapaults and the like, were replaced by siege cannon and mortars.
He defeated it in a siege by starving the occupants out. This siege was the longest siege in England.
The duration of Under Siege is 1.72 hours.
The city of Vicksburg was under siege for several weeks in 1863.
The plural of siege is sieges.