sentences:  By dawn on 11 August, a line of trenches had been dug some from the walls, placing the two sides within musket range of each other, stretching from Gaudy Green on the south side to Issold's House on the east.Massey responded with spoiling tactics in an attempt to hinder Royalist siege operations and delay the assault he was expecting.At midnight a small raiding party succeeded in disrupting Royalist entrenching operations on Gaudy Green, and a larger raid on the green the next morning, 12 August, resulted in the capture of Royalist men, tools and weapons.