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From December 1688 to March 1689 Lundy had the walls and the gates repaired to protect the city, refitted gun carriages and musket stocks, removed buildings and dungheaps outside the walls which might provide cover to besiegers, purchased powder, cannonballs and matchlocks, and had a protective ravelin and outworks built.

However day by day the heavy artillery of the besiegers was felt by the garrison.

Breaking free of his chains, the bear climbed up one of the defensive towers, where his enraged roars attracted the attention of the besiegers.

The besiegers concluded that if the people of Esens had enough food to feed a bear, they must have plenty to feed themselves and as the spectacle of the roaring bear unsettled them, they called off the siege and returned to Bremen.

The defenders managed to surprise the besiegers in a sudden sortie, killing thirty of the besiegers and damaging the circumvallation.

Ascalon was vast and virtually impenetrable; behind its massive walls and gates were twice as many defenders as there were besiegers outside, and there were supplies of food to last for years.

The 100 Carthaginian elephants broke through the barricades, their infantry followed, and the besiegers were routed.

The Carthaginians realised the potential hindrance a continuing Syracusan defence could cause to the Roman war effort and attempted to relieve the city from the besiegers but were driven back.

Most of the activity over this period was undertaken by the garrison, who made a sortie to burn down several houses in the nearby village of Acomb (spelled Ackham in contemporary accounts), to deny shelter to the besiegers, and mounted other raids.

The besiegers' chief concern during this period was to maintain their lines of communication with Hull, through which they received supplies and especially munitions.

They moved to join the besiegers of York on 3 June, taking the hitherto unguarded northern sector between the Ouse and Foss.

The besiegers now began determined operations.

The besiegers next formally summoned the garrison to surrender.