Siegework

Siege´work`

A temporary fort or parallel where siege guns are mounted.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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Only trees that you know do not yield food may be destroyed; you may cut them down for constructing siegeworks against the city that is waging war on you, until it has been reduced (Deut.

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The siegeworks and batteries were under the direction of the engineer, Captain John Hooper, and by the end of July a number of the defenders' cannon mounted on Raglan's towers had been silenced.

How a Civil War siege laid waste to fine Welsh fortress; One of the main legacies of the bloody English Civil War was the destruction by Oliver Cromwell's armies of once majestic Welsh castles, like that at Raglan in Monmouthshire, writes Dr John R Kenyon, of National Museum Wales

It wasn't until nine months after the start of the war, when as many as half of his troops had died of starvation and disease, that he managed to breach one of the castle's key defenses, and this was thanks to the defection from the Dutch side of a grandiose German alcoholic, who helped him design effective siegeworks (Andrade 2008b).

An accelerating divergence? The revisionist model of world history and the question of Eurasian military parity: data from East Asia

Adolf Schulten's early 1900s interpretation of the Late Roman Republic camps near Numantia in Spain are challenged in this report, as Dobson (archaeology, University of Exeter, UK) uses modern technology and recent fieldwork to reassess reconstructions, Scipionic siegeworks, and dates.

The army of the Roman republic; the second century BC, Polybius and the camps at Numantia, Spain

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Visitors to Ninety Six will see one of the best examples of 18th century siegeworks in this country.

The road to independence: sites in the National Park System trace significant events of the Revolutionary War

Only trees which you know do not yield food may be destroyed; you may cut them down for constructing siegeworks.