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Fortune Presently In Besieged City Crossword Clue

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We've checked our database and believe the answer is LUCKNOW which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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noun

• a city in northern India in Uttar Pradesh; during the Indian Mutiny its British residents were besieged by Indian insurgents

• the British residents of Lucknow were besieged by Indian insurgents during the Indian Mutiny (1857)

32%7City that was besieged for ten years during the Trojan War
adjective

• of or relating to Achaea or its ancient Greek people

noun

• a member of one of four linguistic divisions of the prehistoric Greeks, spoken on the Greek mainland, Crete and Cyprus in the 16th to 12th centuries BC

• the ancient Greek inhabitants of Achaea

32%15 Strategy used in ancient warfare to protect a besieged city
noun

• a fortification build around a sieged target by the besiegers to prevent attacks by the defenders.

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