siege
military blockade of a city or fortress
Siege of Thionville
1792 siege during the War of the First Coalition
Siege of Troyes
1429 siege
Siege of Tournai
1340 siege during the Hundred Years' War
Siege of Antioch
253 Sasanian siege and capture of Roman Antioch
Siege of Drogheda
1641 siege
Siege of Genoa
1747 Austrian siege on the Republic of Genoa
Siege of Palmyra
272 siege
Siege of Ani
battle between the Georgians and the Shaddadids
Siege of Algeciras
1309–1310 siege of the Spanish Reconquista
Siege of Bani Walid
2012 siege
Siege of Varna
part of Russo-Polish War (1658)
Siege of Montevideo
1823 siege of Montevideo
Storming of Derbent
1796 siege
Siege of Aintab
1920 siege
Battle of Urfa
1920 Turkish military campaign against France
Blockade of Almeida
1811 blockade during the Peninsular War
Siege of Algeciras
1369 siege
Capture of Berwick
1318 Siege of Berwick in the First War of Scottish Independence
Eighth siege of Gibraltar
1462 siege
Fall of Assur
when the first city and old capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire fell to Median led forces
Siege of Valencia
1814 siege in Venezuela
Siege of Zamora
(1072)
Safavid capture of Tabriz
Battle in 1603 between the Ottoman Turks and the Safavid army of Shah Abbas I
Siege of Arequipa
1857 siege
Second Battle of the Stronghold
1873 battle
Second Siege of Badajoz
1811 battle during the Peninsular War
Siege of Bastia
1794 siege of the War of the First Coalition
Siege of Belgrade
1789 military action of the Austro-Turkish War
Siege of Capua
1098 siege
Siege of Chartres
911 Viking invasion in Burgundy – repelled by Frankish forces
Siege of Fort Motte
1781 siege
Siege of Dunlap's Station
1791 battle during during the Northwest Indian War
Siege of Fort Morgan
1864 siege during the Battle of Mobile Bay
Siege of Hull
1642 first major action of the English Civil War
Siege of Godesberg
1583 siege during the Cologne War
Siege of Hull
1643 siege
Siege of Kandahar
1605–1606 siege
Siege of Inverness
part of the Mary, Queen of Scots civil war
Siege of Kumamoto Castle
1877 Japanese military event
Siege of Madras
1758 part of Seven Years' War
Siege of Mytilene
81 BCE siege by the Roman Republic
Siege of Phasis
555–556 siege during the Lazic War
Siege of Riga
Siege during the French invasion of Russia (1812)
Siege of Roses
1808 siege during the Peninsular War
Siege of Rouen
siege in 1562
Siege of Retz
1486 siege
Siege of Marburg
by the forces of the Ottoman Empire, led by their Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent
Siege of Shkodra
1478 battle during the First Ottoman-Venetian War
Siege of Wexford
1169 12th century battle in Ireland