besieged

Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico

the peninsula and island in the Philippines where Japanese forces besieged American forces in World War II

The act of besieging, or the state of being besieged.

A line of field works made around a besieged place and the besieging army, to protect the camp of the besiegers against the attack of an enemy from without.

A trench guarded with a parapet, constructed by besiegers, to secure themselves and check sallies of the besieged.