Siege of Port Royal (disambiguation)

Wylie

Siege of Paris (1870–1871)

The Siege of Seville (July 1247 – November 1248) was a 16-month successful investment during the Reconquista of Seville by forces of Ferdinand III of Castile. Although perhaps eclipsed in geopolitical importance by the rapid capture of Córdoba in 1236, which sent a shockwave through the Muslim world, the Siege of Seville was nonetheless the most complex military operation undertaken by Fernando III. It is also the last major operation of the Early Reconquista.

Siege of Riga (1812)

Unknown

Siege of Nicaea (1331)

Siege of Pécs

High

Serra do Pilar , the only Liberal stronghold south of the Douro during the Siege of Porto

Prokop and his men before they besieged Pilsen, by Věnceslav Černý

the Vietnam War

the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)

United Provinces

Toyotomi forces

the Eastern Front of World War II

Osman Nuri Pasha

Siege of Paris (845)

The Siege of Sadr City was a blockade of the Shi'a district of northeastern Baghdad carried out by U.S. and Iraqi government forces in an attempt to destroy the main power base of the insurgent Mahdi Army in Baghdad. The siege began on 4 April 2004 – later dubbed "Black Sunday" – with an uprising against the Coalition Provisional Authority following the government banning of a newspaper published by Muqtada Al-Sadr's Sadrist Movement.

John II, Count of Nevers

Siege of Rome (537–538)

Siege of Pilsen (1433-34)

William A. McKean

Sikhs initially besiege and storm Sirhind, Mughals quickly recapture city.

The Siege of Sparta took place in 272 BC and was a battle fought between Epirus, led by King Pyrrhus, (r. 297–272 BC) and an alliance consisting of Sparta, under the command of King Areus I (r. 309–265 BC) and his heir Acrotatus, and Macedon. The battle was fought at Sparta and ended in a Spartan-Macedonian victory.Following his defeat in Italy by the Roman Republic, Pyrrhus was forced to retreat back to Epirus. On his return to Epirus, he declared war against Antigonus Gonatas (r.

Siege of Roses (1808)

Siege of Novo Brdo (1440—41)

Siege of Samarkand

forces of Takeda Shingen

Nguyễn Trọng Luật

The Siege of Seringapatam (5 April – 4 May 1799) was the final confrontation of the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War between the British East India Company and the Kingdom of Mysore. The British, with the allied Nizam of Hyderabad, achieved a decisive victory after breaching the walls of the fortress at Seringapatam and storming the citadel. Tipu Sultan, Mysore's ruler, was killed in the action.

Tomás Romero

Eduard Totleben

Siege of Rheinberg (1586–90)

Great Britain

Baron de Biron

The Siege of Roses or Siege of Rosas from 7 November to 5 December 1808 saw an Imperial French corps led by Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr invest a Catalan and Spanish garrison commanded by Peter O'Daly. After a siege lasting a month in which the haven and town of Rosas was captured and the nearby Trinity Castle invested by over 13,000 French and Italian infantry, artillery and cavalry with heavy siege trains on the hills above, the Citadel was surrendered to the Napoleonic forces. Roses (Rosas) is located 43 kilometres (27 mi) northeast of Girona (Gerona), Spain. The action occurred during the Peninsular War, part of the Napoleonic Wars.In the summer and fall of 1808, an Imperial French corps under Guillaume Philibert Duhesme was isolated in Barcelona by a 24,000-man Spanish army led by Juan Miguel de Vives y Feliu. With 23,000 men, Gouvion Saint-Cyr moved from the French border to relieve Duhesme's troops. The first obstacle to Gouvion Saint-Cyr's mission was the haven of Rosas defended by a large citadel with sea approaches defended by a headland castle. The 3,500 Catalan and Spanish defenders of Roses were mostly local miquelets (militia) stiffened by a small unit of regulars from the Fija de Roses garrison. Although assisted by a bombardment of the French lines by several British warships commanded by Captain Robert Hallowell, and a strong defence of the castle by Catalan regulars and militia with men of the 36-gun frigate Imperieuse commanded by Thomas Cochrane, the garrison was unable to prevent the advance of the Franco-Italian siege lines tightening its grip around the citadel. The defenders eventually capitulated, the soldiers and civilians inside the citadel being taken into captivity in Figueres and the local defenders of the castle being taken by the British to join Vives' Spanish forces in the marshes to the south. Gouvion Saint-Cyr still faced the problem of getting past Girona in order to succor Duhesme's soldiers. The French general made a bold but risky maneuver and the result was the Battle of Cardadeu on 16 December.

Joseon

Unknown, assumed light

The Siege of Rustenburg was a siege that took place between 1880 and 1881 during the First Boer War. Boer forces of the South African Republic carried out the siege on Rustenburg, a British-controlled city inside of the Transvaal Colony, and captured it after three months.

Siege of Pueblo de Taos

Plutarch

A Viking siege of Paris, 19th century portrayal

Tsar Alexander II

Siege of Saint-Pierre-le-Moutier

Siege of Serdica, 809

about 2,000 regular andprovincialsoldiers

The castle of Pécs

Dawlat Berdi seizes Sarai; Olugh Mokhammad is driven north

Siege of Pensacola

Vĩnh Lộc

Hammond

Zu Chengxun

Simon de Lalaing

Siege of Sirmium

Map of Lazica

the Sengoku period

Siege of Sancerre

Siege of Philippsburg

Siege of Rheinberg

Siege of St. Augustine

The Siege of Philippsburg was a siege of the fortress of Philippsburg during the War of the League of Augsburg. It occurred between 27 September and 29 October 1688 and ended in a French victory over the Imperial garrison.

Liberal victory
the Liberal Wars

United Kingdom

Siege of Rogatica

Siege of Quelis-tsikhe

~150 killed

Siege of Rhodes (305–304 BC)

Siege of Nisibis

Siege of Port Royal

Siege of Philippsburg, 1676

Louis, Grand Dauphin

c.102 casualties

The Siege of Sancerre (1572–1573) was a siege of the fortified hilltop city of Sancerre in central France during the Wars of Religion where the Huguenot population held out for nearly eight months against the Catholic forces of the king.

San Fiorenzo captured

Roman victory

Siege of Philippsburg (disambiguation)

The Siege of Phasis took place in 555–556 during the Lazic War between the Byzantine Empire and Sassanid Persia. The Persians besieged the town of Phasis in Lazica, held by the Byzantines, but failed to take it. The main source for the siege is the 6th-century historian Agathias.

Special Forces camp at Plei Me in 1965

Siege of Perekop (disambiguation)

U.S. Air Force and TF Ingram

Siege of Sevastopol (1941–1942)
Siege of Sevastopol
Battle of Sevastopol

The 1590 Siege of Oshi (忍城の戦い, Oshi-jō no tatakai) was one of many battles in Toyotomi Hideyoshi's campaigns against the Hōjō clan during Japan's Sengoku period.Oshi Castle was a stronghold of the Narita clan in north-central Musashi Province. The Narita were originally vassals of the Ogigayatsu Uesugi clan and under the leadership of Narita Akiyasu completed Oshi Castle around 1479.

Siege of Pirisabora

The Siege of Seringapatam (5 April – 4 May 1799) was the final confrontation of the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War between the British East India Company and the Kingdom of Mysore. The British, with the allied Nizam of Hyderabad, achieved a decisive victory after breaching the walls of the fortress at Seringapatam and storming the citadel. Tipu Sultan, Mysore's ruler, was killed in the action. The British restored the Wodeyar dynasty to the throne after the victory, but retained indirect control of the kingdom.

Siege of Saint-Martin-de-Ré

Colonel Arthur Wellesley

Acrotatus

Siege of Nicomedia

the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War

The Siege of Nisibis took place when the Sasanians under Shah Shapur I besieged the Roman city of Nisibis in 252.

Count of Mansfeld

Duchy of Burgundy

Siege of Negroponte (disambiguation)

Victory for British-Hanoverian Government, Jacobites repulsed

Castell de la Trinitat, an outlying fort.

Siege of Shingal

captured

Mughal Empire

Siege of Riga

Siege of Otate

Siege of Plei Me

Siege of Silvan (2015)

The Siege of Porto is considered the period between July 1832 and August 1833 in which the troops of Dom Pedro remained besieged by the forces of Dom Miguel I of Portugal.The resistance of the city of Porto and the troops of Dom Pedro made the victory of the liberal cause in the Kingdom of Portugal possible. Those that fought in the Siege of Porto on the Liberal side include Almeida Garrett, Alexandre Herculano and Joaquim António de Aguiar.

Two US Army soldiers during a patrol through Sadr City in February 2006

unknown number of conscripts

Siege of Ruthven Barracks (1745)

Portrait believed to be of Francis Nicholson, by Michael Dahl, c. 1710

Siege of Nándorfehérvár

Second siege: about 300

Heavy

Siege of Pavia (569-572)

Siege abandoned after relief by Imperial forces.

Sambhal taken by Mughals

Siege of Shelford Manor

Marquess Wellington

Peter O'Daly

North Vietnam

Siege of Santo Domingo of 1805
March, 1805

In November 2015, Turkish Security Forces launched the siege of Silvan - an operation and a curfew in the city of Silvan, directed against the PKK-affiliated group YDG-H. The curfew was issued on Nov. 3 and lifted on Nov. 14, during which time the military and police forces held anti-terror operations in the three neighborhoods of Konak, Mescit and Tekel. The Turkish military has deployed helicopters and tanks against the town, and locals have warned that its 90,000 residents are running low on food, water and electricity.

Siege of Pyongyang (1593)

Pomeroy

Rustenburg, British-occupied Transvaal

Siege of Singidunum

Siege of Oshi

Ottoman Turks

*20px France

A modern-day view of Christ Church, Oxford, used by Charles as his residence in the city.

The siege of Shika castle, spanning the years 1546 to 1547, was one of many battles fought in Takeda Shingen's bid to seize control of Shinano Province. Having just defeated Uesugi Norimasa at the battle of Odaihara, Shingen made use of 300 severed heads obtained at that battle to intimidate Shika's garrison. He displayed the heads prominently outside the besieged castle until Kasahara Kiyoshige surrendered.

Catholic forces

Siege of Potidea (480 BC)

Siege of Sadr City

Siege of Negoro-ji

Siege of Nicaea (1328-1331)

French victory ,

Robert Devereux
Siege of Rouen

Siege of Pavia (1524-25)

Siege of Pilsen

Siege of San Fiorenzo

The Siege of Sirhind was fought between the Mughals and Sikh forces in 1710. The Sikhs initially besieged and stormed the city of Sirhind, however the Mughals were quick to recapture the city and quickly moved on to attack the Sikhs at Lohgarh. Wazir Khan was beheaded in the battle

The Siege of Rheinberg of 1590 by Peter Ernst von Mansfeld.

Takeda Shingen

Siege of Slovyansk

Siege of Skadar

Siege of Sambhal

Siege of Pondichery

Siege of Phasis

Uesugi withdrawal, castle town burned

Siege of Rhegium

The Siege of Saigon, a two-year siege of the city by the Vietnamese after its capture on 17 February 1859 by a Franco-Spanish flotilla under the command of the French admiral Charles Rigault de Genouilly, was one of the major events of the Conquest of Cochinchina (1858–62). Saigon was of great strategic importance, both as the key food-producing area of Vietnam and as the gateway to Cochinchina.

Philip the Good

L. Gouvion Saint-Cyr

Siege of Patras (disambiguation)

Siege of Neuss

Spanish victory

the Lazic War

Catholic victory by famine

May 2008

the Roman–Persian wars

Lord Dalhousie

French victory

Siege of Oudenaarde

Siege of Otranto

Siege of Sardis (disambiguation)

The Siege of Plevna, or Siege of Pleven, was a major battle of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878, fought by the joint army of Russia and Romania against the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman defense held up the main Russian advance southwards into Bulgaria for five months, encouraging other great powers actively to support the Ottoman cause. Eventually, superior Russian and Romanian numbers forced the garrison to capitulate.

Siege of Seville

July - August 1420

Siege of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky

Decisive Parliamentarian victory

Ceasefire agreement signed. Iraqi government forces allowed to enter and patrol Sadr City

The Siege of Rouen (December 1591 – May 1592) was an unsuccessful attempt by Henry IV of France to capture Rouen, the historical capital city of Normandy. The battle took place as part of the French Wars of Religion, the Eighty Years' War, and the Anglo–Spanish War (1585–1604). Although he had claimed the throne 1589, Henry, a Huguenot, was not recognized by many of his Catholic subjects, and he was forced to fight against a Catholic League determined to resist his rule, and which was aided by Spain.At Rouen the combined French, English and Dutch forces of Henry IV battled the troops of the Catholic League, commanded by André de Brancas, Amiral de Villars, and the Spanish forces led by Don Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma (Spanish: Alejandro Farnesio). The city resisted until the arrival of the Spanish troops, which defeated and forced the Protestant forces to lift the siege.

French victory
* Haitian withdrawal from Santo Domingo.

the Nine Years' War

Siege of Rome

Siege of Pleven

Timurids of Samarkand

Second siege: about 320
The Siege of Pensacola was two separate attempts in 1707 by English-supported Creek Indians to capture the town and fortress of Pensacola, one of two major settlements (the other was St.

Siege of Smolensk (1632–1633)

Iraqi security forces

Siege of Pamplona (1813)

United States

Byzantine victory

Siege of Porto

Larger

The Siege of Oxford refers to the English Civil War military campaigns waged to besiege the Royalist controlled city of Oxford, involving three short engagements over twenty-five months, which ended with a Parliamentarian victory in June 1646.The first engagement was in May 1644, during which King Charles I escaped, thus preventing a formal siege. The second, in May 1645, had barely started when Sir Thomas Fairfax was given orders to stop and pursue the King to Naseby instead.

Ptolemy

Siege of Rustenburg

Russian/Romanian Victory

Siege of Sfetigrad

Siege of Pondichéry (disambiguation)

The Siege of Plevna, or Siege of Pleven, was a major battle of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878, fought by the joint army of Russia and Romania against the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman defense held up the main Russian advance southwards into Bulgaria for five months, encouraging other great powers actively to support the Ottoman cause. Eventually, superior Russian and Romanian numbers forced the garrison to capitulate. The Russian-Romanian victory on 10 December 1877 was decisive for the outcome of the war and the Liberation of Bulgaria.

Siege of Oxford

Jacobites

Timurids of Hissar

Mexico

the Byzantine-Ottoman wars

the Iraq War

Toyotomi Hideyoshi victory; temple destroyed.

Shigisan falls to Oda Nobunaga

Jan Pardus

The Siege of Pueblo de Taos was the final battle during the main phase of the Taos Revolt, an insurrection against the United States during the Mexican-American War. It was also the final major engagement between American forces and insurgent forces in New Mexico during the war.

Carlos Coloma
Henry IV of France

Siege abandoned after relief byImperial forces.

Lieutenant General George Harris

Siege of Rheinberg (1586–1590)

Siege of Prosoptis

Kingdom of Spain

Syracusan victory

British East India Company

The Siege of Oudenaarde took place in 1452. It was one of the major engagements in the Revolt of Ghent (1449–53). The city was besieged by forces of the rebellious city of Ghent and defended by forces led by Simon de Lalaing, one of the leading captains of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy. The siege included one of the largest artillery bombardments then seen in Europe. The relief of the town by forces under Philip and his allies opened the way for an attack on Ghent by the Burgundian forces.

Matsunaga clan

Sancerre, France

Supremacy of Toyotomi Hideyoshi

The Siege of Sparta took place in 272 BC and was a battle fought between Epirus, led by King Pyrrhus, (r. 297–272 BC) and an alliance consisting of Sparta, under the command of King Areus I (r. 309–265 BC) and his heir Acrotatus, and Macedon. The battle was fought at Sparta and ended in a Spartan-Macedonian victory.Following his defeat in Italy by the Roman Republic, Pyrrhus was forced to retreat back to Epirus. On his return to Epirus, he declared war against Antigonus Gonatas (r. 283–239 BC), managing to take control of Macedon. In 272 BC, he was approached by a Spartan prince, Cleonymus, a claimant to the Spartan throne who had been overlooked. Pyrrhus saw this invitation as an opportunity to extend his wars of conquest to the Peloponnese and invaded Sparta. Despite the majority of the Spartan army campaigning in Crete, the remaining Spartans were able to mount a defence led by the Spartan Crown Prince Acrotatus. The Spartans were able to withstand the Epiriote assaults until the arrival of the main Spartan army, led by King Areus I, and Macedonian reinforcements, prompting Pyrrhus to abandon the siege.After this failure, Pyrrhus ravaged the Spartan hinterland whilst fending off counter-attacks by the victorious Spartans. On the invitation of an Argive ally, Pyrrhus attempted to seize Argos. The assault culminated in a fiasco with Pyrrhus being attacked by his Argive opponents, the pursuing Spartan army of Areus and a Macedonian army commanded by Antigonus Gonatas. Pyrrhus was killed in the ensuing battle in the streets of Argos, ending Epiriote hopes of establishing a hegemony in Greece.

Pro-Bourbon Spain

Wolfram von Richthofen

Austrian victory

forces of Toyotomi Hideyoshi

around 500

The Siege of Plei Me (Vietnamese: Bao vây Plei Me) (19–25 October 1965) was the beginning phase of the first major confrontation between soldiers of the communist North Vietnamese Army (PAVN) and the U.S. army during the Vietnam War. The lifting of the siege by South Vietnamese forces and American air power was followed by the pursuit of the retreating North Vietnamese from 28 October until 12 November, setting the stage for the Battle of Ia Drang. Plei Me was an isolated U.S.

Negoro-gumi, the warrior monks of Negoro-ji

Siege of Sparta

Plevnа, Ottoman Empire

The Siege of Riga was a military operation undertaken by the Grande Armée during the French invasion of Russia in July 1812.The siege was led by Marshal Jacques MacDonald, with a force of 30,000 men, facing Russian defenders under command of Ivan Fyodorovich Emme. The French were unable to take the city.

In November 2015, Turkish Security Forces launched the siege of Silvan - an operation and a curfew in the city of Silvan, directed against the PKK-affiliated group YDG-H. The curfew was issued on Nov. 3 and lifted on Nov. 14, during which time the military and police forces held anti-terror operations in the three neighborhoods of Konak, Mescit and Tekel.

Siege of Seringapatam

First Siege of Odawara

The Siege of Savendroog (also commonly spelled Sevendroog or Severndroog, but now known as Savandurga) was conducted by British East India Company forces under the command of General Charles Cornwallis in December 1791, during the Third Anglo-Mysore War. The fortress of Savendroog, held by forces of Tipu Sultan, the ruler of Mysore, and thought to be virtually impregnable, was successfully stormed on 22 December 1791 after less than three weeks of siege.

Siege of Ochakov

In the Siege of Pamplona (26 June – 31 October 1813) a Spanish force led by Captain General Henry (Enrique José) O'Donnell and later Major General Carlos de España blockaded an Imperial French garrison under the command of General of Brigade Louis Pierre Jean Cassan. At first, troops under Arthur Wellesley, Marquess Wellington surrounded the city, but they were soon replaced by Spanish units.

Initially:100 ships

Siege of Perekop

present-day Bristol, Maine

Negoro-ji, Izumi Province, Japan

* Iroquois

about 13,000

December 1591 – May 1592

about 2,000 regular and provincial soldiers

Louis Emmanuel Rey

André de Brancas

Sasanian victory

Malik Baban Jilwani

Rheinberg

a: Cologne had been effectively independent of theArchbishopric-Electoratesince theBattle of Worringenin 1288, but did not become de jure independent until grantedImperial immediacyin the aftermath of this siege.

Ceran St. Vrain

Spanish-Catholic victory

Siege of Rome (1849)

South Vietnamese-American victory
*Siege lifted

Ming

Romania

Rhodes island

Siege of Salonika

Siege of Santo Domingo (1805)

the Taos Revolt

Siege succeeds; Takeda victory

Siege of Ragusa (866-868)

Siege of Shika Castle

* Jandarma
*Turkish Police Force

Siege of Rome (537-538)

Siege of Plevna

Reginherus

Soviet Union

Siege of Pyongyang

Ghent rebels

unknown

Siege of San Antonio

Siege of Saint-Suzanne, 1083–1086

Father Jean Baudoin

Arkan Muhammad Ali al Hasnawi

Hōjō forces

Mahdi Army

Siege of Ochakov (1737)

Pilsen, Bohemia

Ottoman victory

Stalemate

North Vietnamese estimate: 600 killed in 33rd regiment.

Siege of Oxford (1646)

The Siege of Sparta by Pyrrhus,

Toyotomi victory

Thomas Cochrane

Robert Abrams

Carlos de España

Siege of Q'veli

Oudenaarde, East Flanders

Siege of Parnu

Siege of Sardis(498 BC)

Siege of Pemaquid

Siege of Reval (1710)

Siege of Paris (1870-1871)

Hindu Baig

Siege of Saint-Suzanne (1083-86)

The Siege of Oudenaarde took place in 1452. It was one of the major engagements in the Revolt of Ghent (1449–53). The city was besieged by forces of the rebellious city of Ghent and defended by forces led by Simon de Lalaing, one of the leading captains of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy. The siege included one of the largest artillery bombardments then seen in Europe. The relief of the town by forces under Philip and his allies opened the way for an attack on Ghent by the Burgundian forces. In 1453 the rebels were defeated at the Battle of Gavere.

World War II

The Siege of Rouen (December 1591 – May 1592) was an unsuccessful attempt by Henry IV of France to capture Rouen, the historical capital city of Normandy. The battle took place as part of the French Wars of Religion, the Eighty Years' War, and the Anglo–Spanish War (1585–1604).

One corner tower of Odawara Castle today

Siege succeeds; Oda victory

Castle falls to Takeda Shingen

Byzantine Empire

The 1590 Siege of Oshi (忍城の戦い, Oshi-jō no tatakai) was one of many battles in Toyotomi Hideyoshi's campaigns against the Hōjō clan during Japan's Sengoku period.Oshi Castle was a stronghold of the Narita clan in north-central Musashi Province. The Narita were originally vassals of the Ogigayatsu Uesugi clan and under the leadership of Narita Akiyasu completed Oshi Castle around 1479. The castle was built on a small elevation near the Tone River and made use of marshes and swamplands in its surroundings as part of its defenses, It was regarded as one of the seven most important strongholds of the Kantō region.The Narita changed their allegiance to the Odawara Hōjō clan in 1546 following the defeat of the Uesugi at the Siege of Kawagoe Castle. In 1560, Uesugi Kenshin invaded the area in support of Uesugi Norimasa, the official Kanto kanrei causing Narita Nagayasu to waiver in his ties to the Odawara Hōjō. However, after a quarrel with Kenshin, the enraged Nagamasa returned to the Odawara Hōjō side, and the castle town was burned down by Kenshin in 1574. In the 1590 Siege of Odawara, Toyotomi Hideyoshi dispatched his senior retainer Ishida Mitsunari on an expedition to reduce the outlying castles still loyal to the Odawara Hōjō clan. Three days after capturing Tatebayashi Castle, Ishida’s forces of 23,000 troops arrived at Oshi. At Oshi, the clan leader, Narita Ujinaga was at Odawara with the bulk of his forces, leaving his home castle defended by only 619 samurai and 2000 local conscripts, led by his daughter Kaihime and younger brother Narita Ujichika.In the Siege of Oshi, the castle’s held off numerous attacks, including a copy-cat effort to flood the defenders out patterned after Hideyoshi’s famous Siege of Takamatsu. Despite Mitsunari’s impressive construction of 28 kilometers of dikes and torrential rains, the castle still held for over a month and its defenders only after word that their lord had been defeated at Odawara.From this battle, Oshi Castle gained fame as the “floating castle”, but more importantly, Mitsunari emerged with a sullied reputation as a poor commander, which affected his subsequently ability to gain the loyalty of powerful daimyo after the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and contributed to his defeat at the 1600 Battle of Sekigahara

Siege of Santuario de Nuestra Senora de la Cabeza

castle garrison

Mohomed Hulleen Mir Miran

The Siege of Sirmium in 580–582 was a decisive event in the history of the Balkans. The fall of the city to the Avars deprived the Byzantine Empire of its major stronghold on the northwestern Danube, opening the path for devastating incursions by the Avars and their Slavic allies into the Balkans.Sirmium, which for much of the 6th century had been controlled by the Goths and then the Gepids, had come under Byzantine control in 567 after the Lombard–Gepid War (567).

Siege of Nürnberg

Honoré Reille

Russian victory

Catholic League of France

Tô Đình Khẩn

Oda clan forces

23px|alt="The Pine Tree flag of New England"New England

Scott-Kilvert

Siege of Pensacola (1707)

the Russo-Polish War (1654–67)

Oshi Castle

Siege of Salses

fewer than 300

Filipp Oktyabrskiy

Green

The Last Effort and Fall of Tipu Sultan by Henry Singleton

Map of the northern Balkans in Late Antiquity

Black Sea Fleet

Siege of Sirhind

The Siege of Pirisabora took place when the Roman Emperor Julian besieged the city of Pirisabora in April 363.

Siege of Smolensk

20px|left|alt=|link=Imperial City of Cologne20px|left|alt=|link=Imperial army

Siege of Rogatica (1942)

Siege of Shigisan

Siege of Santiago (1898)

Siege of Saragossa

Siege of Paris

Prince Carol I of Romania

Theognis

Sasanians capture Nisibis.

The Siege of San Fiorenzo (or Siege of Saint-Florent ) was a British military operation, supported by Corsican partisans early in the French Revolutionary Wars against the French-held town of San Fiorenzo on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. The Corsican people had risen up against the French Republican garrison in 1793 after an attempt to arrest the Corsican leader Pasquale Paoli during the Reign of Terror.

or ~45,000 men

Ali Khan, Nizam of Hyderabad

Siege of Rhodes

Siege of Odawara (1561)

Siege of Quebec City

Timurids of Bukhara

Vũ Sắc

Electorate of Cologne

the Revolt of Ghent

Siege of Silvan

British Province of Carolina

Decisive Anglo-Hyderabadi victory

the Wars of the Diadochi

Siege of Northampton

Mir Golam Hussain
Major General David Baird

Siege of Sardis (498 BC)

U.S. body count: 326 killed during siege
U.S. estimate: 850 killed, 1,700 wounded during siege and pursuit

the Franco-Haitian War

Abboud Qanbar

Siege of Sevastopol (1941–42)

Siege of Singapore

The Siege of Neuss, from 1474–75, was linked to the Cologne Diocesan Feud and part of the Burgundian Wars. The siege, led by Charles the Bold against the Imperial City of Neuss, was unsuccessful. Charles was compelled by the approach of a powerful Imperial army to raise the siege.

Siege of Pamplona

Siege of Smolensk (1609-11)

June 1942:

The Siege of Oxford refers to the English Civil War military campaigns waged to besiege the Royalist controlled city of Oxford, involving three short engagements over twenty-five months, which ended with a Parliamentarian victory in June 1646.The first engagement was in May 1644, during which King Charles I escaped, thus preventing a formal siege. The second, in May 1645, had barely started when Sir Thomas Fairfax was given orders to stop and pursue the King to Naseby instead. The last siege began in May 1646 and was a formal siege of some three months; but the war was obviously over and negotiation, rather than fighting, took precedence. Being careful not to inflict too much damage on the city, Fairfax even sent in food to the King's second son, James, and was happy to conclude the siege with an honourable agreement before any further escalation occurred.

around 5,000

Macedon

San Fiorenzo. anonymous, c.1790s. NMM.

Siege of Novo Brdo (1440-41)

Muqtada al-Sadr

Siege of Pusan

Colour photograph of a Madrasa taken in Samarkand

Siege of Rome (549-50)

Fort San Carlos de Austria, map from 1699

Francis Vere

Ameinias the Phocian

The Siege of Pemaquid occurred during King William's War when French and Native forces from New France attacked the English settlement at Pemaquid (present-day Bristol, Maine), a community on the border with Acadia. The siege was led by Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville and Baron de St Castin between August 14–15, 1696. Commander of Fort William Henry, Captain Pasco Chubb, surrendered the fort. Iberville killed three of the soldiers and sent the other 92 back to Boston.The victory at Pemaquid was one of the most significant the French had during the war. The siege resulted in a retaliatory raid by New England forces on Acadia.

ARVN armored column of 1,400 men

Tipu Sultan

John Henry Verinder Crowe

In the Siege of Pamplona (26 June – 31 October 1813) a Spanish force led by Captain General Henry (Enrique José) O'Donnell and later Major General Carlos de España blockaded an Imperial French garrison under the command of General of Brigade Louis Pierre Jean Cassan. At first, troops under Arthur Wellesley, Marquess Wellington surrounded the city, but they were soon replaced by Spanish units. In late July 1813, Marshal Nicolas Soult attempted to relieve the city but his operation failed in the Battle of the Pyrenees. Cassan capitulated to the Spanish after the French troops in the city were reduced to starvation. The surrender negotiations were marred by French bluffs to blow up the fortifications and Spanish threats to massacre the garrison, neither of which occurred. Pamplona is located on the Arga River in the province of Navarre in northern Spain. The siege occurred during the Peninsular War, part of the Napoleonic Wars.

Battle of sirhind or chhapar chiri

The Siege of Pensacola was two separate attempts in 1707 by English-supported Creek Indians to capture the town and fortress of Pensacola, one of two major settlements (the other was St. Augustine) in Spanish Florida.The attacks, part of Queen Anne's War (the North American theater of the War of the Spanish Succession), resulted in the burning of the town, and caused most of its Indian population to flee, although the fort withstood repeated attacks.The first siege, in August 1707, resulted in the destruction of the town, but Fort San Carlos de Austria successfully resisted the onslaught. In late November 1707, a second expedition arrived, and made unsuccessful attacks on three consecutive nights before withdrawing. Pensacola's governor, Don Sebastián de Moscoso, whose garrison was depleted by disease, recruited convicted criminals to assist in the fort's defense.

Duke of Parma

The Siege of San Fiorenzo (or Siege of Saint-Florent ) was a British military operation, supported by Corsican partisans early in the French Revolutionary Wars against the French-held town of San Fiorenzo on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. The Corsican people had risen up against the French Republican garrison in 1793 after an attempt to arrest the Corsican leader Pasquale Paoli during the Reign of Terror. The French had then been driven into three fortified towns on the northern coast; San Fiorenzo, Calvi, and Bastia and Paoli appealed to the British Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet, commanded by Lord Hood, for assistance against the French garrison.In the autumn of 1793 Hood was distracted by the Siege of Toulon, but did sent a squadron with orders to attack San Fiorenzo. The attack achieved initial success but was driven off by the fortifications at the Torra di Fornali. After the fall of Toulon in December 1793, Hood turned his main attention to Corsica and ordered a joint operation against the town, attacking from the sea and with amphibious landings. Over two weeks the main defences of the town were defeated by a series of artillery operations which drove the French out of their defences one by one and destroyed the French shipping in the harbour. On 18 February the French garrison withdrew across the island to Bastia, which was attacked in turn later in the spring. By August 1794, the French had been driven from Corsica, which had become a self-governing part of the British Empire.

Li Rubai

United States victory

Don Sebastián de Moscoso

Gordey Levchenko
Axis victory

the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592-1598)

Pablo Chávez

The Siege of Perekop on June 17, 1736 was part of the Russo-Turkish War (1735–1739). Russian Field Marshal Burkhard Christoph von Münnich (known in Russia as Minikh) successfully stormed the fortifications at the Isthmus of Perekop and left the Tatar fortress Fortress Or Qapi (known as Perekop Fortress in Russian) in ruins. This was a serious, if not mortal, blow to the independence of the Crimean Khanate and left the Tatar fortress in ruins. As a result, the Russian Empire for the first time gained access into the Crimean Peninsula. This was a serious blow to the independence of the Crimean Khanate.Minikh feigned a false attack on the right flank, and the major attack on the fight flank broke through the fortifications. The army went up to the capital of the Kahante, Bakhchisaray, and Akmescit (now Simferopol). However epidemic, epizooty, and mutiny in the army forced Minikh to leave Crimea.

The pagoda of Negoro-ji is all that survives of the buildings that were standing before the attack by Hideyoshi in 1585.

Tahseen al Freiji

The Siege of Sarai (July - August 1420) was a siege of Sarai, the nominal capital of the Golden Horde.

Kasim Sambhali

The Siege of Sirmium in 580–582 was a decisive event in the history of the Balkans. The fall of the city to the Avars deprived the Byzantine Empire of its major stronghold on the northwestern Danube, opening the path for devastating incursions by the Avars and their Slavic allies into the Balkans.Sirmium, which for much of the 6th century had been controlled by the Goths and then the Gepids, had come under Byzantine control in 567 after the Lombard–Gepid War (567). The Avars appeared along the Danube at about the same time. They launched a first attack on Sirmium in 568, but were seen off by the local governor, Bonus. The Byzantines secured peace with the Avars through the payment of an annual tribute, which by 578 had risen to some 80,000 solidi. In 580, however, the Avar khagan, Bayan I, marched with his men to the right bank of the Sava river across from Sirmium, and began construction of a bridge to cross it. The city at the time was largely undefended and unprepared to withstand a siege, as most of the Byzantine forces were engaged in the east against Sassanid Persia. The Byzantine emperor Tiberius II tried to forestall the Avar attack by diplomatic means, but when the khagan′s ambassador demanded the surrender of the city, he replied that he would sooner give one of his two daughters as a bride to the khagan, rather than surrender Sirmium. Tiberius managed to send in a few officers from Dalmatia to oversee the city's defence, while the envoy Thognis tried unsuccessfully to treat with Bayan. Despite the weakness of the garrison, the city resisted for almost three years, and it was not until late 581 or early 582, shortly before his death, that Tiberius agreed to surrender the city in exchange for the lives of its citizens. The Avars indeed spared the population, but took their possessions and 240,000 solidi from the Emperor, as arrears of the tribute owed over three years.

Siege of Pavia (773-74)

Siege of Pilsen (1433–34)
Catholic victory

the Viking expansion

Siege of Olmouc

Viking occupation of Paris; departed for 7,000 livres of silver and gold

The Siege of Santo Domingo of 1805 was a major battle of the Franco-Haitian War and was fought on March, 1805 at Santo Domingo, Saint-Domingue. A force of some 2,000 French troops led by Gen. Marie-Louis Ferrand resisted a siege of three weeks by a force of 21,000 troops of the Haitian Army led by General Jean Jacques Dessalines. The siege lasted until the city received naval support from six French frigates.

Siege of Odawara

Viking occupation of Paris; departed for 7,000livres(pounds) of silver and gold

The Siege of Pemaquid occurred during King William's War when French and Native forces from New France attacked the English settlement at Pemaquid (present-day Bristol, Maine), a community on the border with Acadia. The siege was led by Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville and Baron de St Castin between August 14–15, 1696. Commander of Fort William Henry, Captain Pasco Chubb, surrendered the fort.

Siege of Odawara (disambiguation)

Siege of Oguchi

Gen. Henri Christophe

Siege of Scutari (1912-1913)

Sevastopol harbour after the battle

Siege of Smoleńsk

Grand Duke Nicholas

La Rochelle volunteers: 800

May 1644 - June 1646

Erich von Manstein

Siege of Saint-Martin-de-Ré (1625)

First French Empire

Henry O'Donnell

Anglo-Corsican Victory

Part of the Pamplona fortress.

Siege of Perugia

the French War of Religion (1587–1594) and the Anglo–Spanish War

Village chhapar chiri near Sirhind

The Siege of Rhegium was fought in 386 BC. between a Syracusan force and the city of Rhegium. The Syracusans were led by the tyrant Dionysius I. Dionysius took the city, and sold its inhabitants into slavery.

six frigates

Siege of Roses

Pablo Montoya

Port Royal, Acadia

Cross

June–July 1942:

Rhodian victory

French and Abenaki victory

France
Thomas Graham

The Siege of Sadr City was a blockade of the Shi'a district of northeastern Baghdad carried out by U.S. and Iraqi government forces in an attempt to destroy the main power base of the insurgent Mahdi Army in Baghdad. The siege began on 4 April 2004 – later dubbed "Black Sunday" – with an uprising against the Coalition Provisional Authority following the government banning of a newspaper published by Muqtada Al-Sadr's Sadrist Movement. The most intense periods of fighting in Sadr City occurred during the first uprising in April 2004, the second in August the same year, during the sectarian conflict that gripped Baghdad in late 2006, during the Iraq War troop surge of 2007, and during the spring fighting of 2008.

Siege of Saragossa (1808)

The 1577 siege of Shigisan (信貴山の合戦, Shigisan no kassen) was one of many sieges during Oda Nobunaga's campaigns to consolidate his power in the Kansai area. The castle was held by Matsunaga Hisahide and his son Kojirō, both of whom committed suicide upon their defeat.Supposedly, following his father's seppuku, Kojirō leapt from the castle walls, with his father's head in his hand, and his sword through his own throat.Hisahide, a master of tea ceremony is also said to have smashed his favorite tea bowl so that it would not fall into the hands of his enemies.

The Siege of Negoro-ji (根来寺の戦い, Negoro-ji no Tatakai) was commanded by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a former vassal of Oda Nobunaga, who came to inherit his armies, his land, and his rivalry with the warrior monks of Japan when Nobunaga was killed in 1582. Thus, in a way this was the next in a series of many sieges that Oda Nobunaga's forces undertook in the 1580s, against the many fortresses of warrior monks.

Siege of Serres (1345)

David Dundas

Siege of Pavia (disambiguation)

Siege of Port Royal (1710)

First siege: unknown, under 220

Robert Linzee

the Gothic War

Domenico Pino

Siege of Sarai

Marquis de Vauban

Siege of Shahjahanabad

Fox

Siege of Rome (disambiguation)

Siege of Sevastpol

Chinese cavalry and infantry attacking the walls of Pyongyang in 1593, from a Chinese painted screen in the Hizen-Nagoya castle museum

Siege of Saigon

forces of Oda Nobunaga

The Siege of Plei Me (Vietnamese: Bao vây Plei Me) (19–25 October 1965) was the beginning phase of the first major confrontation between soldiers of the communist North Vietnamese Army (PAVN) and the U.S. army during the Vietnam War. The lifting of the siege by South Vietnamese forces and American air power was followed by the pursuit of the retreating North Vietnamese from 28 October until 12 November, setting the stage for the Battle of Ia Drang. Plei Me was an isolated U.S. Army Special Forces and Civilian Irregular Defense Group (CIDG) camp in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam defended mostly by Montagnard tribesmen.

the Burgundian Wars

Rome successfully defended

Siege of Ruthven Barracks

Burgundian victory

The Siege of Roses or Siege of Rosas from 7 November to 5 December 1808 saw an Imperial French corps led by Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr invest a Catalan and Spanish garrison commanded by Peter O'Daly. After a siege lasting a month in which the haven and town of Rosas was captured and the nearby Trinity Castle invested by over 13,000 French and Italian infantry, artillery and cavalry with heavy siege trains on the hills above, the Citadel was surrendered to the Napoleonic forces.

Anglo-Portuguese victory

Siege of Plzeň

Siege of Shkodër

Pre-occupation Iraqi Armed Forces

Plevna

the First English Civil War

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Hyderabad

Siege of Philippsburg (1688)

John Burgwin

Spartan-Macedonian victory

the Eighty Years' War and the Cologne War

The Siege of Ochakov (1737) was a siege during the Austro-Russian–Turkish War (1735–39) in which the Russian army, led by Burkhard Christoph von Münnich, captured the Ottoman fortress of Ochakov. It took place in 1737.

Plei Me, Vietnam

Siege of Rouen (1591)

The Siege of Negoro-ji (根来寺の戦い, Negoro-ji no Tatakai) was commanded by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a former vassal of Oda Nobunaga, who came to inherit his armies, his land, and his rivalry with the warrior monks of Japan when Nobunaga was killed in 1582. Thus, in a way this was the next in a series of many sieges that Oda Nobunaga's forces undertook in the 1580s, against the many fortresses of warrior monks. The Negoro-gumi, the warrior monks of Negoro-ji, were quite skilled in the use of firearms, and were devout followers of Shingi, a branch of the Shingon sect of Buddhism. They were allied with the Ikkō-ikki, and with Tokugawa Ieyasu, one of Nobunaga's chief rivals. In particular, they attracted Hideyoshi's ire for their support of Tokugawa in the Battle of Komaki and Nagakute the previous year.After attacking a number of other warrior monk outposts in the area, Hideyoshi's force turned to the Negoro-ji, attacking it from two sides. By this time, many of the Negoro-gumi had already fled to Ōta Castle, home of the Saiga Ikki; the numbers present during the siege are unclear. The complex was set aflame, beginning with the residences of the priests, and Hideyoshi's samurai cut down monks as they escaped the blazing buildings.

a: Cologne had been effectively independent of the Archbishopric-Electorate since the Battle of Worringen in 1288, but did not become de jure independent until granted Imperial immediacy in the aftermath of this siege.

First siege: several hundred

Charles I

Siege of Smolensk (1654)

Military of Germany
Ivan Yefimovich Petrov

British victory

Siege of San Sebastián

The death of John Burgwin at the Siege of Taos.

Bottom: The fortress of Saint-Martin. Military mock-up, 1702. Musée des Plans-Reliefs.

The Capture of the Grivitsa redoubt, by Henryk Dembitzky

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Siege of Olynthus (480 BC)

Siege of Shkodër (disambiguation)

the Julian's Persian War

Maarten Schenck

Siege of Seringapatam (1799)

Siege of Noda

Unknown; second siege may have been led by Thomas Nairne

Pyotr Novikov

Mikhail Skobelev

Siege de Sancerre, early 17th century print by Claude Chastillon.

The Storming of San Sebastian by Denis Dighton

Coastal Army

Timurids of Ferghana

Siege of Oxford (1644)

The Siege of Perekop on June 17, 1736 was part of the Russo-Turkish War (1735–1739). Russian Field Marshal Burkhard Christoph von Münnich (known in Russia as Minikh) successfully stormed the fortifications at the Isthmus of Perekop and left the Tatar fortress Fortress Or Qapi (known as Perekop Fortress in Russian) in ruins. This was a serious, if not mortal, blow to the independence of the Crimean Khanate and left the Tatar fortress in ruins.

Siege of Ota castle

July 1832 to August 1833

Siege of Savendroog

the Huguenot rebellions

The 1561 siege of Odawara, a battle of Japan's Sengoku period, was the first of several sieges which would befall the home castle of the Hōjō clan.Uesugi Kenshin was at the height of his campaign against the Hōjō clan, as he captured several of their castles. In 1561 he besieged the Hōjō's Odawara Castle. The Uesugi breached the defenses, and burned the castle town. The castle itself however, remained unconquered; Kenshin would withdraw after two months. This came as the result of a lack of adequate supplies, and the reappearance of Takeda Shingen, Kenshin's long-time rival, who was threatening his territories.This ended the first of three sieges of the Odawara castle.

French Royal Army

Siege of Nisibis (252)

Siege of Saint-Suzanne (1083–86)

* Wabanaki Confederacy
* Mi'kmaq
* Abenaki

Decisive Mughal victory

Top: Full map of the landing, siege and retreat by the English forces of Buckingham.

Louis Cassan

Corsica

March 537– March 538 AD

Map of the city from the mid-sixteenth century, before the building of its trace italienne fortifications

Siege of Ochakov (1789)

All residents of Sirhind were burned alive or killed.

Western Afghan Confederates

The Siege of Port Royal (5 – 13 October 1710), also known as the Conquest of Acadia, was a military siege conducted by British regular and provincial forces under the command of Francis Nicholson against a French Acadian garrison and the Wabanaki Confederacy under the command of Daniel d'Auger de Subercase, at the Acadian capital, Port Royal. The successful British siege marked the beginning of permanent British control over the peninsular portion of Acadia, which they renamed Nova Scotia, and it was the first time the British took and held a French colonial possession. After the French surrender, the British occupied the fort in the capital with all the pomp and ceremony of having captured one of the great fortresses of Europe, and renamed it Annapolis Royal.The siege was the third British attempt during Queen Anne's War to capture the Acadian capital, and it had profound consequences over the next 50 years. The conquest was a key element in the framing of the North American issues in French-British treaty negotiations of 1711–1713. It resulted in the creation of a new colony—Nova Scotia—and introduced significant questions concerning the fate of both the Acadians and the Mi'kmaq who continued to occupy Acadia.The Conquest of Acadia was a foundational moment in the history of the Canadian state—it was a precursor to the British conquests of Louisbourg and Quebec in the middle of the century.

Spring 272 BC

Duc de Duras

The 1561 siege of Odawara, a battle of Japan's Sengoku period, was the first of several sieges which would befall the home castle of the Hōjō clan.Uesugi Kenshin was at the height of his campaign against the Hōjō clan, as he captured several of their castles. In 1561 he besieged the Hōjō's Odawara Castle. The Uesugi breached the defenses, and burned the castle town. The castle itself however, remained unconquered; Kenshin would withdraw after two months.

Siege of Philippsburg 1688

François Topino-Lebrun

Siege of Paris (disambiguation)

The Siege of Port Royal (5 – 13 October 1710), also known as the Conquest of Acadia, was a military siege conducted by British regular and provincial forces under the command of Francis Nicholson against a French Acadian garrison and the Wabanaki Confederacy under the command of Daniel d'Auger de Subercase, at the Acadian capital, Port Royal.

Song Yingchang

Shika castle, Shinano Province, Japan

the Invasion of Corsica during the French Revolutionary Wars

The Siege of Neuss, from ''

Siege of Santo Domingo (1808)

Siege of Perekop (1736)

exact numbers unknown, but very few

Kurdistan Workers' Party
*YDG-H

(Siège de Saint-Martin-de-Ré)

Siege of Pemaquid (1696)

Siege of Rennes (1356-1357)

MacDonell of Lochgarry

Siege of Ninety-Six (1775)

Li Rusong

The 1577 siege of Shigisan (信貴山の合戦, Shigisan no kassen) was one of many sieges during Oda Nobunaga's campaigns to consolidate his power in the Kansai area.

Pasquale Paoli

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French Republic

Timurid Civil Wars

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the Avar–Byzantine Wars

Corsican irregulars

Hatibzade Yahya Pasha

naval squadron

Siege of Petersburg, Virginia

Siege of Prague (1757)