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Before the Military Division line was drawn, the German Army held advance positions in Poland many miles beyond it and was besieging Lw�w.

From Time Magazine Archive

Smuts had added 3,000 to his force, was besieging a British town when the war ended.

From Time Magazine Archive

A similar cavalry charge of 26 horsemen routed the best troops of Emperor Manco himself, as he was besieging the Spaniards in Cuzco.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Would he continue to hug the Apennines to join Moreau, or would he strike out northwards against Kray, who The Trebbia. with 20,000 men was besieging Mantua?

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various

Arbaces, the Scythian, was besieging it, but was unable to make any great impression on it for two years.

From The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia by Pinches, Theophilus Goldridge