Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Medieval Warfare and English Society.
A strategy of using artillery to actively bombard and breach walls, replacing the passive strategy of starving out defenders.
Active siege appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for Warfare and British Society and London WWII, especially Medieval Warfare and English Society and The Nature of Warfare.
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