 | World history - 1747 - 544 pages
...able to take the place by ftorm, he caufed a line of circumvallation to be drawn quite round the city, with a large and deep ditch, reckoning, that, if all communication with the country were cut off, the more people there were within the city, the fooner they would be obliged to furrender.... | |
 | English literature - 1750 - 372 pages
...to take the place by florm; he caufed a line of cir•cumvallation to be drawn quite round the city, with a large and deep ditch; reckoning, that, if all communication with the country were cut off', the more people there were within the city, the fooner they would be obliged to furrender.... | |
 | Universal history - 1779 - 514 pages
...able to take the place by ftorm, he caufed a line of circumvallation to be drawn quite round the city, with a large and deep ditch, reckoning that, if all communication with the country were cut off, the more people there were within the city the fooner they would be obliged to furrender.... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 750 pages
...dcfpairing of being able to take fuel) a city by ftorm, caufed a line of circumvallation tobe drawn quite round it, with a large and deep ditch; reckoning, that if all communication with the country were cut off, the bofieged would be obliged to iunender through famine. That his troops might not •be... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 740 pages
...defpairing of being able to take fuch a city by ftorm, caufed a line of circumvallation to be drawn quite round it, with a large and deep ditch ; reckoning, that if all communication with the country were cut off, the belicged would be obliged to furrendgr through famine. That his troops might not... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 852 pages
...years. Cyrus, despairing of being able to take it by storm, caused a line of circumvallation to be drawn quite round it, with a large and deep ditch ; reckoning, that if all communication with the country were cut off, the besieged would be obliged to surrender through famine. That his troops might not... | |
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... with a large and deep ditch, reckoning that, if all communication with the country were cut off, the more people there were within the city the fooner they would be obliged to furrender. That... 