Sentences with 'sieges'
Example sentences and phrases with the word sieges and other words derived from it.
• « Emperor Leo the Isaurian (r. 717 - 741) used soldiers recruited by thémas (administrative divisions of the Byzantine Empire) to fight Arab sieges of Constantinople and to consolidate control of Anatolia. »
• « They had learned both Roman and Persian tactics and strategies of warfare and were adept at sieges, intelligence gathering and open battle. »