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The invading Muslims besieged the city of Toulouse, then Aquitaine's most important city, and Odo ( also called Eudes, or Eudo ) immediately left to find help.
He also besieged Tripoli, but abandoned it in May when Prince Edward of England arrived, the only part of Louis IX's crusade to arrive in the east.
But when Pope Hadrian I called for help from the powerful king Charlemagne, Desiderius was defeated at Susa and besieged in Pavia, while his son Adelchis had also to open the gates of Verona to Frankish troops.
A besieging army must be prepared to repel both sorties from the besieged area and also any attack that may try to relieve the defenders.
A line of circumvallation would also be constructed, facing in towards the besieged area, to protect against sorties by the defenders and to prevent the besieged from escaping.
Beijing is also besieged by the Mongol hordes.
He also took advantage of the difficulties in the Byzantine military, coming to the aid of Narses, a Byzantine general who refused to acknowledge the new Emperor's authority and who was besieged by troops loyal to Phocas in Edessa.
Amherst then led an army against French troops on Lake Champlain, where he captured Fort Ticonderoga in July 1759, while another army under Sir William Johnson took Niagara also in July 1759 and James Wolfe besieged and eventually captured Quebec with a third army in September 1759.
The city was also besieged by Benhadad ( 1 Kings 15: 20 ) and by Tiglath-pileser ( 2 Kings 15: 29 ) about 734 BC.
Requesens's armies also besieged the city of Leiden.
In 827 the Arabs also invaded Sicily, taking advantage of local infighting, and besieged Syracuse.
Illus and Trocundes were sent to chase him, and Zeno was compelled to shut himself up in a fortress, where Illus besieged him, capturing also Zeno's brother, Longinus and keeping him as an hostage.
The force besieged Muret, but in September Battle of Muret led to the death of King Peter, and his army fled ( this battle also marks end of Aragonese foothold north of the Pyrénées ).
Although gunpowder weapons were used to defend castles from the late 14th century onwards it became clear during the 16th century that, provided artillery could be transported and brought to bear on a besieged castle, gunpowder weapons could also play an important attack role.
Here also his paper was the object of attack by pro-slavery mobs, one of which besieged the editor and printers in their office for three days in 1848.
In 1111 Baldwin assisted Tancred in besieging Shaizar, and then also besieged Tyre, but was pushed back by a Muslim force under Toghtekin of Damascus.
Vespasian's brother and nephew were also besieged in the temple during the Year of Four Emperors ( 69 ).
Almost continuously the Campine villages was plundered and besieged ; foreign troops caused severe havoc, and also brought with them diseases such as the Bubonic plague.
Maaseik was also besieged in 1672 by Louis XIV.
The Spanish force – who were also suffering serious losses from fever – closed in on Fort St Andrew and besieged it for a month, although disease was still the main cause of death during this time.
It may later have been a stronghold of the Manaw Gododdin, and has also been identified with a settlement recorded in the 7th and 8th centuries as Iudeu, where King Penda of Mercia besieged King Oswy of Bernicia in 655.
In Catalonia, however, French forces ( now also reinforced with troops from Italy ) achieved considerable success when Vendôme, commanding some 32, 000 troops, besieged and captured Barcelona.
The fourth book, Quartus liber uniuersas machinas, quibus uel obpugnantur ciuitates uel defenduntur, enumerat ; naualis quoque belli praecepta subnectit, enumerates " all the machines with which cities are besieged or defended " ( chapters 1-30 ) and adds also the precepts of naval warfare ( chapters 31-46 ).

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The Indians who came aboard ship to collect the mail also interested her greatly, even if she was suitably shocked, according to the customs of the society in which she had been reared, to find them `` naked, except a piece of cotton cloth wrapped around their middle ''.
We may also recognize cases in which the poets have influenced the philosophers and even indirectly the scientists.
In a total blockade, action could also be taken against ships bringing in chemicals, oils, textiles, and even foodstuffs.
One need not waver in his belief in virile law enforcement to insist that there are other things in American life which are also of great importance, and to which even law enforcement must accommodate itself.
They also deduct transportation expenses incurred in connection with the performance of services as employees even though they are not away from home.
If your child is under 19 or is a student you may also claim an exemption for him if he qualifies as your dependent, even though he earns $600 or more.
And dancing school, so helpful in artistic and psychological development, also contributes to this essential early training -- and can contribute even more.
It may also work in one other way -- by licensing its system patents and supplying the meters, letting the oil company or even the builder install the facilities.
The unifying effect of religion is also brought out in the fact that historically peoples have clung together as more or less cohesive cultural units, with religion as the dominant bond, even though spatially dispersed and not politically organized.
in working with these patients the therapist eventually gets to do some at least private mulling over of the possible meaning of a belch, or the passage of flatus, not only because he is reduced to this for lack of anything else to analyze, but also because he learns that even these animal-like sounds constitute forms of communication in which, from time to time, quite different things are being said, long before the patient can become sufficiently aware of these, as distinct feelings and concepts, to say them in words.
Although Utopian communism is both new in 1516 and also modern, it is not modern communism or even modern socialism, as they exist or have ever existed in theory or in practice.
Add also a comparatively primitive industrial plant which would severely limit our capacity to keep abreast of the Soviets even in the missile field which is reputed to be our main strength.
Under the auspices of the Outing Club, Dartmouth also has the Mountaineering Club, which takes on tough climbs like Mount McKinley, and Bait & Bullet, whose interests are self-evident, and even sports a Woodman's Team, which competes with other New England colleges in wood sawing and chopping, canoe races, and the like.
The justification in Christian conscience of the use of any mode of resistance also lays down its limitation -- in the distinction between the persons against whom pressure is primarily directed, those upon whom it may be permitted also to fall, and those who may never be directly repressed for the sake even of achieving some great good.
The executive paid tribute to research and development and technology for their great contributions in the past, but he also cautioned industry that they tend to be great equalizers because they move at a fairly even pace within an industry and fail to give it the short-term advantage which it often needs.
A young man doesn't like to be driven up in front of a school in a car driven by a girl who isn't even in a higher class than he is, and is also a girl.
The college teacher needs the stimulus of communication with other faculty members but he also needs to feel that such communication, even informal debates over the luncheon table, are a contribution to the total good of the institution.
This also happens in salamander eggs even when they are unfertilised.
Males normally exhibit such behaviour though in some species, females and even juveniles are also involved.
There have also been found very old Nepōhualtzintzin attributed to the Olmeca culture, and even some bracelets of Mayan origin, as well as a diversity of forms and materials in other cultures.
This wider shape also provides the future homeowner with thermal protection enough to stabilize an even temperature throughout the year.
In addition, the researchers also mention that the shifting robot can even display an individual's hair style and skin color if a photo of their face is projected onto the 3D Mask.
Orbitals with the same value of n and also the same value of l are even more closely related, and are said to comprise a " subshell ".
can also mean atomic unit or even arbitrary unit.

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