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nounthe action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack
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- sally a military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position
- relief the act of freeing a city or town that has been besieged
- orleans a long siege of Orleans by the English was relieved by Joan of Arc in 1429
- orleans a city on the Loire river in north central France; site of the siege of Orleans by the English (1428-1429)
- atlanta a siege in which Federal troops under Sherman cut off the railroads supplying the city and then burned it; 1864
- petersburg the final campaign of the American Civil War (1864-65); Union forces under Grant besieged and finally defeated Confederate forces under Lee
- achilles a mythical Greek hero of the Iliad; a foremost Greek warrior at the siege of Troy; when he was a baby his mother tried to make him immortal by bathing him in a magical river but the heel by which she held him remained vulnerable--his `Achilles' heel'
- crockett United States frontiersman and Tennessee politician who died at the siege of the Alamo (1786-1836)
- syracuse the Roman siege of Syracuse (214-212 BC) was eventually won by the Romans who sacked the city (killing Archimedes)
- syracuse the Athenian siege of Syracuse (415-413 BC) was eventually won by Syracuse