Without major field battles, the Serbian tactic was based on seizing towns by siege.

"He was forced to yield by long siege," the king said.

The Maratha army attacked and took seventeen fortresses by siege.

It would be hard to take this place by siege.

Hitler's strategy of neutralising Malta by siege seemed to be working.

Having done as much as possible to prevent the relief of the castle, Philip then set about reducing it by siege.

Rather than storm these, Murray chose to reduce them by siege.

His army was composed mostly of cavalry, and were unable to recover Castro by siege.

The way Temperance had fortified the palace, it might have taken months to capture the place by siege.

In Rennes, which had paid the price of this marriage by siege, food shortage, and an occupation, it was hardly mentioned.