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Thus, these articles become contraband, ipso facto, if carried to a besieged town, camp, or port. Common Provisions are not Contraband in general prize law, except in the single case of being sent to a beseiged or blockaded place.
The brother of the overlord of all Greece beseiged Troy, and the kings and princes of his land came to help him. Many came from afar, but none from a more distant kingdom than Odysseus. Wife and child and old father he left behind him and sailed away with his black-prowed ships to fight in Troyland.
The feint took; and by these means getting possession of those nearest the town, he manned them with his own people; and going out with them himself, in three days made himself master of every ship on the coast. By this maneuver the situation of the beseiged was rendered so hopeless, that no mode of escape was left but by desperate sallies.
Instantly he retraced his steps with all possible speed, passed by the Indians, and reached the threatened fort a day before they did. Boonsborough again Beseiged. On the eighth day of the month the savages appeared before the stockade. They marched into view with British and French colors flying, and formally summoned the little wooden fort to surrender in the name of his Britannic Majesty.
He beseiged Dublin, and came to a composition with the citizens, by which they agreed to allow him free ingress to assail the Castle, into which his enemies had withdrawn.
"A priest told me one day that the neuter larvæ inhabit an invisible, neutral territory, something like a little island, which is beseiged on all sides by the good and evil spirits. The larvæ cannot long hold out and are soon forced into one or the other camp.
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