siege
military blockade of a city or fortress
Siege of Kimberley
1899 event during the Second Boer War
Siege of La Rochelle
siege of 1372
Siege of Nice
1705 siege
Siege of Thionville
1558 Unsuccessful Spanish siege of Thionville
Siege of Paris
1360 siege during the Hundred Years' War, penultimate action of the Edwardian Phase of the Hundred Years' War
Siege of Tournai
1581 siege
Siege of Toulouse
1219 siege
Siege of Mirandola
1511 siege of the War of the League of Cambrai
Siege of Rhodes
88 BCE siege
Siege of Rome
1849 siege of the city of Rome by French troops
Siege of Bilbao
1836 siege
Sack of Barcelona
985 siege
Siege of Esztergom
1543 battle in the Age of castle wars
Siege of Verona
541 siege
Siege of Cembalo
1434 siege
Fall of Agadir
1541 siege
Fall of Tripoli
1289 capture of city in the Crusades
Fifth Siege of Gibraltar
1349-50 attempt by Alfonso XI of Castile to retake Gibraltar
Seventh Siege of Gibraltar
1436 siege
Siege of Aleppo
1260 siege during the Mongol invasion of Syria
Siege of Annapolis Royal
four attempts by the French, along with their Acadian and native allies, to regain Annapolis Royal
Siege of Athens
siege by Demetrius' I forces in 287 BCE
Siege of Bactra
207 BCE siege
Siege of Balkh
1370 Timurid conquest of the city of Balkh
Siege of Carlisle
successful November 1745 siege by The Jacobite Army under Charles Edward Stuart
First Herat War
1837 action by Qajar Persia that preceded the Anglo-Persian War
Siege of Inverness
part of the 1715 Jacobite rising
Siege of Lisbon
1384 military action in Portugal
Siege of Oxford
1644 siege
Siege of Prague
1757 Siege of Prague during the Third Silesian War
Siege of Reading
eleven-day blockade of Reading, Berkshire 1643
Siege of Tarragona
1813 siege during the Peninsular War
Siege of Trichinopoly
1751-52 siege of Trichinopoly during the Second Carnatic War
Siege of Valenciennes
1793 18th-century battle
Siege of the British Residency in Kabul
1879 battle of the Second Anglo-Afghan War
Zealot Temple Siege
Siege of the Temple in Jerusalem during the First Jewish–Roman War (66–70 AD)
Siege of Corinth
198 BCE siege during the Second Macedonian War
Siege of Douai
1710 siege
Siege of Elche
1332 siege
Siege of Kaunas
1362 siege of Kaunas Castle
Siege of Patras
1205 siege
Siege of Pamplona
1813 siege during the Peninsular War
Siege of Rome
549 siege of Rome during Gothic War
Capture of Granada
1491 siege in the Granada War
Colbert raid
1783 battle of the American Revolutionary War