siege
military blockade of a city or fortress
Siege of La Mota
1634 siege
Siege of Paris
1370 siege
Siege of Maastricht
1793 French siege and failed capture of Maastricht by De Miranda during the First Coalition War
Siege of Metz
1473 siege
Siege of Port-au-Prince
1793 siege
Siege of Paris
1435 part of the Hundred Years' War
Siege of Poitiers
955 siege
Siege of Tlemcen
1299-1307 siege of the city of Tlemcen
Siege of Amida
siege in 336
Siege of Melfi
1528 siege
Siege of Maastricht
1794 French siege of Maastricht by Kléber during the First Coalition War
Siege of Ravenna
539–540 siege of the Ostrogothic capital by Belisarius
Siege of Fort St Philip
1756 French capture of British Menorca
Siege of the Loyola barracks
1936 battle of the Spanish Civil War
Fall of Ashdod
Ancient battle
Siege of Ctesiphon
637 Arabian Rashidun army captures of the Sassanian capital
Siege of Corfu
1798 siege
Siege of Smolensk
siege and capture of Smolensk in 1514
Battle of Montevideo
1807 siege
Siege of Utica
204 BCE siege during the Second Punic War; Carthaginian victory
Capture of Cairo
1517 capture of the capital of the Mamluk Sultanate
Capture of Baghdad
part of the Ottoman–Safavid War (1532–1555)
Capture of Berwick
1482 English invasion of Scotland during the Anglo-Scottish Wars
Siege of Tourane
1858 siege at the start of the French conquest of Vietnam
First Battle of Fort Fisher
1864 battle of the American Civil War
Siege of Montevideo
1811 siege
Sieges of Oaxaca
1865 siege
Siege of Baidoa
2009 military conflict in Somalia
Siege of Bangkok
1688 siege of the French fortress in Bangkok by Siamese forces
Siege of Basing House
1643 siege in the First English Civil War
Siege of Aleppo
1980 during the Islamic uprising in Syria
Siege of Coria
1138 battle of the Reconquista
Siege of Cork
1690 siege
Siege of Florence
part of the barbarian invasion of the Roman Empire
Siege of Haddington
1548-49 Siege of Haddington during the War of the Rough Wooing
Siege of Heidelberg
siege in the thirty years' war (1622)
Siege of Dunkirk
1793 siege of the War of the First Coalition
Siege of Jerusalem
1834 siege
Siege of Jebus
According to the Bible, David besieged and conquered the Jebusite city of Jerusalem, then known as Jebus, from the native Canaanites
Siege of Kandahar
1737–1738 siege
Siege of Itami
1574 siege
Siege of Lingen
1605 siege
Siege of Monrovia
2003 battle during the Second Liberian Civil War
Siege of Rouen
siege in 1591
Siege of Santiago
1898 siege during the Spanish-American War
Siege of Trichinopoly
1741 siege and capture of Trichinopoly by the Maratha Empire
Siege of Wiener Neustadt
1487 18 month siege in the Austro-Hungarian War
Siege of the Acropolis
1821 battle between Greeks and Ottomans in the Acropolis of Athens
Siege of Riga
1621 siege