In the campaign, the French lost 6,000 killed and wounded, plus 4,000 men and their siege train captured.
He was ordered to capture the town of Astorga, but without a siege train, his troops had to blockade the place.
They wouldn't know what a siege train was if it rose up and bit them on their furry asses.
Sarakos and his army waited for their siege train.
Get a siege train within range, and in three or four days you will have reduced the walls to rubble.
Smyth and his battery did arduous work with the siege train in the trenches.
On 15th April the small siege train finally arrived and the guns were mounted in batteries.
Following this would be the siege train, supply wagons and then the camp followers.
He realized that once these works were completed, it would take an army equipped with a full siege train to reduce them.
Suchet brought up his siege train and on 7 May had a battery of heavy cannons in action.