All 23 Uses
siege
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1776, by McCullough
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- British troops remained under siege at Boston and were running short of food and supplies.†
p. 7.5
- AT THE START of the siege there had been no American army.†
p. 24.7 *
- Not the least of Washington's problems was that he had command of a siege, yet within his entire army there was not one trained engineer to design and oversee the building of defenses.†
p. 27.7
- At one point early in the siege there were 4,000 men at work on Prospect Hill alone.†
p. 32.8
- Mumford was the first Rhode Island casualty of the war, and the horror of his death moved Nathanael Greene as nothing had since the siege began.†
p. 39.8
- For Washington, who had a fondness for handsome architecture and river views, the house suited perfectly and would serve as his command headquarters through the siege, with his office established in a drawing room off the front hall.†
p. 41.9
- And never had he directed a siege.†
p. 49.3
- Also, a siege by definition required a great deal of prolonged standing still and waiting.†
p. 51.2
- In striking contrast to Lee was Major General Artemus Ward, a heavy-set, pious-looking Massachusetts farmer, storekeeper, justice of the peace, and veteran of the French and Indian War, who had had overall command of the siege of Boston prior to Washington's arrival.†
p. 52.6
- In all, there were now about 4,000 civilians under siege, at least half of whom were women and children, and they, too, no less than the redcoat army, were hurting from shortages of all kinds, the poor inevitably suffering most.†
p. 74.1
- Montresor, too, had served in the French and Indian War, in the Braddock campaign and at Wolfe's siege of Quebec.†
p. 77.8
- Notices in the Boston Gazette (published in Watertown since the start of the siege) called for volunteer nurses.†
p. 89.8
- General Timothy Ruggles, a veteran of the French and Indian War, was a wealthy landowner and outspoken Tory who had been put in command of three companies of Loyal American Associators, as they were known, who had helped patrol the streets during the siege.†
p. 102.5
- It was the only newspaper available in Boston during the siege.†
p. 103.2
- THE SIEGE had been the stunning success it was proclaimed, and Washington's performance had been truly exceptional.†
p. 111.1
- But from this point on, the citizen-soldiers of Washington's army were no longer to be fighting only for the defense of their country, or for their rightful liberties as freeborn Englishmen, as they had at Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill and through the long siege at Boston.†
p. 136.9
- Lord Rawdon, a veteran of Bunker Hill and of the siege of Boston who had taken delight in the hatred his men felt for Yankees, was cheered now by the number of soldiers being court-martialed for rape, this being perfect proof, he wrote, of their improved diet and of what a "spirited" lot they were.†
p. 142.1
- It was Knowlton at Bunker Hill who, with Colonel John Stark, had famously held the rail fence in the face of the oncoming British lines, and Knowlton who, during the siege of Boston, had led the night attack on Charlestown that so upset the British officer's production of the Burgoyne farce The Blockade at Faneuil Hall.†
p. 217.6
- He had signed up more than a year before, taken part in the Siege of Boston, and lately joined Colonel Knowlton's Rangers.†
p. 224.1
- Nearing the close of the letter, Washington added a further worry: "I expect the enemy will bend their force against Fort Washington and invest it immediately," he said, the term "invest" meaning to surround and lay siege, not necessarily to attack all-out.†
p. 235.4
- There were no barracks for the troops, and there was no water supply, other than what could be hauled up from below—hardly what was needed in the event of a long siege with winter approaching.†
p. 237.3
- Once, during the Siege of Boston, when almost nothing was going right and General Schuyler had written from Albany to bemoan his troubles, Washington had replied that he understood but that "we must bear up against them, and make the best of mankind as they are, since we cannot have them as we wish."†
p. 256.1
- Of all the general officers who had taken part in the Siege of Boston, only two were still serving at the time of the British surrender at Yorktown, Washington and Greene.†
p. 293.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(siege) a military tactic in which a fortified place is surrounded and isolated while it is attacked over time
or:
any prolonged attack, effort, or period of trouble - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)