11.   Eventually Saladin tired of the game and laid siege until the place surrendered.

12.   Florence was jealous, says our patriotic Sienese tour guide, and laid siege to the smaller city time and again.

13.   He has fled to England while a Prussian army lays siege to Paris.

14.   Her first great triumph was to lead a French army against the English who had laid siege to the city of Orleans.

15.   In the movie, a Marine colonel played by Samuel L. Jackson orders his troops to open fire on demonstrators laying siege to the American embassy in Yemen.

16.   Neither was born when the army laid siege to the village, which may explain their shaky version of history.

17.   The dream ended for the Moors when Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic monarchs who were uniting Spain at the point of a sword, laid siege to Granada.

18.   The juxtaposition brings to mind a band of gruff buccaneers laying siege to a Miami retirement home.

19.   The Jaffar envoy, Mulshi Eshaq, met with the top commanders laying siege to the village and expressed shame and unhappiness at the fighting.

20.   The militias had laid siege to the compound from the day after East Timor voted for independence.