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* 1900 – The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British.
We possess two declamations under his name: On Sophists, directed against Isocrates and setting forth the superiority of extempore over written speeches ( a more recently discovered fragment of another speech against Isocrates is probably of later date ); Odysseus ( perhaps spurious ) in which Odysseus accuses Palamedes of treachery during the siege of Troy
He is credited with designing innovative machines, including siege engines and the screw pump that bears his name.
* Deliverance from Distress in Babylon ( 4: 9 – 5: 1 ) The similarities to Isaiah 41: 15 – 16 and the references to Babylon suggest the period of this material, although it is unclear whether a period during or after the siege of 586 is meant.
The prophet Habakkuk is generally believed to have written his book in the mid to late 7th century BC, not long before the Babylonians ' siege and capture of Jerusalem.
It is reported in the Bible during the siege of Samaria ( 2 Kings 6: 25 – 30 ).
A similar story is reported by Flavius Josephus during the siege of Jerusalem by Rome in 70 AD ( see Mary of Bethezuba ), and the population of Numantia during the Roman Siege of Numantia in the 2nd century BC was reduced to cannibalism and suicide.
A catapult is a device used to throw or hurl a projectile a great distance without the aid of explosive devices — particularly various types of ancient and medieval siege engines.
The formation of the Latin League led by Laevius ( or Baebius ) Egerius happened under the influence of an alliance with the tyrant of Cuma Aristodemos and is probably connected to the political events at end of the 6th century narrated by Livy and Dionysius, such as the siege of Aricia by Porsenna's son Arruns.
David sends for Uriah, who is with the Israelite army at the siege of Rabbah, so that he may lie with his wife and conceal the identity of the child's father.
The cause of death is commonly accepted to be a combination of sorrow for the loss of his only son in 1097, and the increasing impact of the siege on famine and living standards more generally.
The first chronicled use of " fire spears " ( or " fire lances ") is at the siege of De ' an in 1132.
If this is not due to chronological confusion of the events of the siege, it may suggest that Kallinikos merely introduced an improved version of an established weapon.
However, although the use of hastily improvised fireships is mentioned during the 1203 siege of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade, no report confirms the use of the actual Greek fire.
The cheirosiphōnes especially were prescribed for use at land and in sieges, both against siege machines and against defenders on the walls, by several 10th-century military authors, and their use is depicted in the Poliorcetica of Hero of Byzantium. The Byzantine dromons usually had a siphōn installed on their prow under the forecastle, but additional devices could also on occasion be placed elsewhere on the ship.
Atlanta is under siege ( September 1864 ), " hemmed in on three sides ," it descends into a desperate state while hundreds of wounded Confederate soldiers lie dying or dead in the city.
This is reflected by archaeological sites and findings such as the Broad Wall, defensive city wall in Jerusalem, Hezekiah's Tunnel, an aqueduct designed to provide Jerusalem with water during an impending siege by the Assyrians, led by Sennacherib.
It is believed his refusal to bring the war to Rome itself was due to a lack of commitment from Carthage of men, money and materiel — principally siege equipment.
In the video game Postal 2 if you enter the church in the siege a priest is throwing holy hand grenades behind a table
The first part establishes Isaiah as a prophet of Israel during the reign of Hezekiah ; the second part focuses on Isaiah's actions during the siege of Jerusalem by Sennacherib ; and the third part is primarily focused upon Isaiah warning the people of coming doom.
* 1913 – Second Balkan War: Serbian forces begin their siege of the Bulgarian city of Vidin ; the siege is later called off when the war ends.
However, James ' successor as leader of the Jerusalem church, Simeon, is not, in tradition, appointed till after the siege of Jerusalem in AD 70, and Eusebius ' notice of Simeon implies a date for the death of James immediately before the siege, i. e. about AD 69.

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The language of the DSM was described as " simultaneously precise and vague " in order to provide an aura of scientific objectivity yet not limit psychiatrists in a semantic or financial sense, and the manual itself compared to " a militia's Web page, insofar as it constitutes an alternative reality under siege " by critics.
The New Zealand Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters described the 2006 coup as a " creeping siege on democratic institutions ".
The events were described by the Jewish leader / historian Josephus, including the desperate defence of Jotapata, the siege of Jerusalem ( 69 – 70 CE ) and heroic last stand at Masada under Eleazar ben Yair ( 72 – 73 CE ).
Archery was described by contemporaries as ineffective against plate armour in the Battle of Neville's Cross ( 1346 ), the siege of Bergerac ( 1345 ), and the Battle of Poitiers ( 1356 ); such armour became available to European knights of fairly modest means by the late 14th century, though never to all soldiers in any army.
File: Archimedes naples statue. jpg | Archimedes ( c. 287 BC – c. 212 BC ): described buoyancy, developed formulae for the areas and volumes of spheres, cylinders, parabolas, worked extensively with levers, invented the Archimedes ' screw, developed siege engines for warfare to impede the Roman invasion of Syracuse.
* The late 8th century BC siege system surrounding the site of Lachish ( Tell el-Duweir ) in Israel, built by Sennacherib of Assyria in 701 BC, is not only evident in the archaeological remains, but is described in Assyrian and biblical sources and in the reliefs of Sennacherib's palace in Nineveh.
* 1870 – Having invaded the Papal States a week earlier, the Italian Army lays siege to Rome, entering the city the next day, after which the Pope described himself as a Prisoner in the Vatican.
He described the civil war and the siege of the Fort of Nuku ' alofa, which fell to ' Ulukalala and his warriors
Berlin described his visit to her flat: It was very barely furnished — virtually everything in it had, I gathered, been taken away — looted or sold — during the siege.
Accounts described earthen mounds used to aid construction ; however, to reach the top of the statue would have required a mound in diameter, which exceeded the available land area, so modern engineers have proposed that the abandoned siege towers stripped down would have made efficient scaffolding.
As described, this siege by Agrican resembles the historic siege by Genghis Khan in 1220.
" Abu Bakar " ( presumably Terkibayev ) was also described as FSB agent and actual organizer of the theater siege by Anna Politkovskaya, Alexander Khinshtein and other journalists.
Firestone notes that the Qurayza tribe itself is described in Muslim sources as using the trope of being turned into apes if one breaks the Sabbath to justify not exploiting the Sabbath in order to attack Mohammad, when they were under siege.
Lieutenant Balneavis, who took part in the siege described Ruapekapeka in his journal as " a model of engineering, with a treble stockade, and huts inside, these also fortified.
Shirley Allen, of Roby, Illinois, is a former nurse whose family's 1997 attempt to have her involuntarily committed led to a 39-day standoff ( described by some as a " siege ") with Illinois State Police and other law-enforcement agencies.
He described what he saw there after the siege of Beijing in Les Derniers Jours de Pékin ( The Last Days of Peking, 1902 ).
) Amalric's own version of siege, described in his letter to Pope in August 1209 ( col. 139 ), states:
Atrocities described in accounts of the massacre include the killing and scalping of sick and wounded individuals, and the digging up of graves of those who died of wounds or disease during the siege for additional trophies.
The ancient author Athenaeus Mechanicus, who flourished during the reign of Augustus ( 30 BC – AD 14 ), described the military use of a gimbal-like mechanism, calling it " little ape " ( pithêkion ): When preparing to attack coastal towns from the sea-side, military engineers used to yoke merchant-ships together to take the siege machines up to the walls.
Even though the term has a medieval origin, this kind of device was first described by Julius Caesar, in the seventh book of his Commentarii de Bello Gallico ( Commentaries on the Gallic Wars ), who employed the device during the siege of Alesia.
The village was razed by the troops of Napoleon during their return to Egypt after their failed siege of Acre in 1799, and the British traveller James Silk Buckingham, who passed through the village (" El Mukalid ") in 1816, described it as still " rather poor ", while noting that the village resembled an Egyptian one in form and constructions of its huts.
" Robert Fisk, in his book Pity the Nation, described how civilians were fleeing Hama while tanks and troops were moving towards the city's outskirts to start the siege.
Forbes described the suit as putting " the fast-changing newspaper business on trial ," noting " newspapers have been under siege since the technology bubble popped in the late 1990s, with problems ranging from declining circulation, advertiser consolidation, classified ads migrating online, rising newsprint costs, bloated debt structures and, yes, over-staffing.

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