siege
military blockade of a city or fortress
Siege of Shimoda
in Shimoda, Shizuoka
Siege of Venlo
assauly in 1459
Battle of Tarentum
209 BCE battle of the Second Punic War in which the Romans led by Quintus Fabius Maximus recaptured the city of Tarentum
Siege of Calais
1558 battle
Siege of Calais
1349 battle
Capture of Axel
1586 siege
Siege of Venlo
assault in 1701
Siege of Fort Macon
1862 siege during the American Civil War
Siege of Algeciras
1342–1344 Castilian siege of the Marinid Empire capital
Blockades of Amsterdam
1572 siege
Battle of Pamplona
battle of the Italian War of 1521–1526
Lorient pocket
1944 siege
Siege of Sardis
a battle for establishing the greatest empire of east
Sack of Rome
390 BCE sack
Battle of Bayonne
1814 battle during the Peninsular War
Siege of Fort Detroit
1763 siege during Pontiac's Rebellion
Siege of Fort Sans-Culotte
1795 siege
Siege of Paris
856 siege
Siege of Paris
978 siege
Siege de Lille
1792 battle
Siege of Tournai
1667 siege during the War of Devolution
Siege of Venlo
1794 assault
Siege of Medina Fort
1857 battle in present-day Mali
Siege of Milan
538-539 siege, main episode of the Gothic war
Siege of Naples
536 siege
Siege of the Castle of Saint George
1500 siege of the Second Ottoman-Venetian war
Azov sitting
capture and defense of the fortress of Azov by the Don and Zaporozhian Cossacks against Ottomans in 1637–1642
Capture of Malacca
1511 Portuguese military conquest
Siege of Malacca
1640 Dutch conquest of Malacca
Siege of Fellin
1602 siege of the Polish–Swedish War
Siege of Smolensk
1654 event
Siege of Toma
1914 bloodless action during World War I on the island of New Pomerania
Attack on Springfield
in 1675, Springfield, Massachusetts, was burned to the ground during King Philip's War
Siege of Aligarh
battle between the Maratha Confederacy and the British East India Company during the Second Anglo-Maratha War (1803–1805) at Aligarh, India
Siege of Colchester
1648 siege that occurred during the Second English Civil War
Fourth Siege of Gibraltar
Conflict between Castilian and Moorish forces (1333)
Siege of Tbilisi
1582 siege
Second Siege of Callao
1824 battle during the Peruvian War of Independence
Second Siege of Diu
1546 siege
Siege of Blair Castle
1746 battle between Scottish forces loyal to the British-Hanoverian government and Scottish Jacobite forces loyal to the House of Stuart
Siege of Apia
March 1899 battle of the Second Samoan Civil War
Siege of Carlisle
1644–45 Siege of Carlisle
Siege of Coimbatore
1791 historic Indian battle
Siege of Carlisle
successful December 1745 siege when the Duke of Cumberland retakes Carlisle
Siege of Exeter
1068 siege of Exeter by William the Conqueror
Siege of Diu
1531 siege
Siege of Fort Augustus
1745 siege
Siege of Fort Erie
1814 immediately following the Capture of Fort Erie
Siege of Fort Henry
1777 attack on American militiamen during the American Revolutionary War near the Virginia outpost known as Fort Henry by a mixed band of Indians