The besieging army numbered about five thousand French and eleven thousand Americans.

The defenders of Solmstold wild stories about the losses of the besieging army.

He was one of that besieged army, the army of Light.

As he stood under the walls of Rouen, the besieging armies fled by night.

His firm refusal converted the mob into a besieging army.

Eventually, the works went on, until, when the besieging army arrived, they were tenable.

The garrison was as numerous as the besieging army.

The besieging army will be freed for other purposes.

The besieging army, so long striving for its possession, was not permitted to enter it.

Terror of the people in the street sat down before his mind like a besieging army.

But we marched over broken walls to the most laughable defeat ever suffered by besieging army.

The besieging army rather exceeded fifteen hundred, of whom from six to nine hundred were Indians.

There, in the pine woods on the opposite side, is the Boucault, where our besieging army lay.

On the 9th of November, the Mahrattas began to show themselves in the neighbourhood of the besieging army.

As one circle after another was passed, the besieging army found itself compressed within a constantly contracting field.

Blockading fleets are like besieging armies.