List of sieges: Encyclopedia II - List of sieges - Military sieges

List of sieges - Military sieges

List of sieges - Ancient

• Siege of Megiddo (c. 1457 BCE)
• Siege of Dapur (c. 1296 BCE)
• Siege of Troy (c. 1200 BCE)
• Siege of Hermopolis (c. 715 BCE)
• Siege of Jerusalem (701 BCE) - the Assyrian siege of Sennacherib
• Siege of Syracuse (415 BCE) - the Athenian siege
• Siege of Tyre (332 BCE) by Alexander the Great
• Siege of Rhodes (305 BCE) by Demetrius Poliorcetes
• Siege of Agrigentum (261 BCE) (First Punic War between the Roman Republic and Carthage)
• Siege of Syracuse (213–212 BCE) - the Roman siege
• Siege of Alesia (52 BCE)
• Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE) - the Roman siege of Titus
• Siege of Masada (72 CE)

List of sieges - Medieval

• Siege of Rome (537-538)
• Siege of Constantinople (674-678)
• Siege of Constantinople (717-718)
• Siege of Pavia (773-774)
• Siege of Paris (885-886)
• Siege of Graus (Spring 1063)
• Siege of Nicaea (1097) - part of the First Crusade
• Siege of Antioch (1097-98) - part of the First Crusade
• Siege of Jerusalem (1099) - part of the First Crusade
• Siege of Edessa (1144)
• Siege of Lisbon (1147)
• Siege of Damascus (1148)
• Siege of Sanjo Palace (1160) - the main action of the Heiji Rebellion took place in Kyoto
• Siege of Nara (1180) - during Genpei War
• Siege of Jerusalem (1187)
• Siege of Acre (1189)
• Siege of Constantinople (1204) - part of the Fourth Crusade
• Siege of Kamakura (1333) - end of Ashikaga shogunate.
• Siege of Caffa (1346)
• Siege of Calais - Hundred Years' War
• Siege of Rouen(1418) - reopening of the Hundred Years War
• Siege of Orleans (1429)
• Siege of Constantinople (1453)

List of sieges - Early modern

• Siege of Smolensk (1514)
• Siege of Tenochtitlan (1521)
• Siege of Rhodes (1522)
• Siege of Vienna (1529)
• Siege of Kazan (1552)
• Siege of Leith (1560)
• Siege of Malta (1565)
• Turkish siege of Nicosia, Cyprus (1570)
• Turkish siege of Famagusta, Cyprus (1570-71)
• Siege of Ishiyama Honganji (1570-1580) - longest siege in Japanese history
• Sieges of Nagashima (1571, 1573, 1574)
• Siege of Haarlem (1572)
• Siege of Nagashino (1575)
• Siege of Pskov (1581-82)
• Siege of Ypres (1584)
• Siege of Ghent (1584)
• Siege of Bruges (1584)
• Siege of Brussels (1584)
• Siege of Antwerp (1584-1585)
• Siege of Odawara (1590)
• Siege of Kinsale (1601-1602)
• Siege of Ostend (1601-1604)
• Siege of Smolensk (1609-11) - 20 months
• Siege of Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra (1609-11) - 16 months
  Soldiers in the trenches of the siege at Petersburg
• Siege of Osaka (1614-1615)
• Siege of La Rochelle (1627-1628)
• Siege of Nuremberg (1632), Thirty Years' War
• Siege of Hara fortress (1637-1638)
• Siege of Azov (1637-42)
• Siege of Candia (Crete) (1648-1669) - possibly the longest siege in history
• Siege of Drogheda (1649)
• Siege of Clonmel (1650)
• Cromwell's Siege of Limerick City, Ireland (1651)
• Siege of Copenhagen (1658-59)
• Siege of Solovetsky Monastery (1668-1676)
• Siege of Groningen (1672)
• Siege of Maastricht (1673)
• Siege of Londonderry (1689)
• Williamite Siege of Limerick City, Ireland (1690-1691)
• Siege of Gibraltar (1704)
• Siege of Turin (1706)
• Siege of Lille (1708)
• Siege of Quebec City (1759)
• Siege of Boston (1775–1776)
• Siege of Yorktown (1781)
• Siege of Mantua (1796-1797)
• Siege of Seringapatam (1799)

List of sieges - Modern

• Sieges of Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz (1812)
• Siege of the Alamo (1836)
• Siege of Sebastopol (1856)
• Siege of Veracruz (1847) - First U.S. amphibious landing.
• Siege of Cawnpore (1857) - The Indian Mutiny
• Siege of Lucknow (1857) - The Indian Mutiny
• Siege of Medina Fort (1857) - Toucouleurs besiege French for 97 days
• Siege of Vicksburg (1863) — Union army besieged a Confederate city in the American Civil War.
• Siege of Port Hudson (1863) — Union Army surrounded Confederate river stronghold for 48 days.
• Siege of Petersburg (1864–1865)
• Siege of Hakodate (1869)
• Siege of Paris and the Paris Commune (1870–1871)
• Siege of Khartoum (1884–1885)
• Siege of Mafeking (1899–1900)
• Siege of Port Arthur (1904-05)
• Siege of Antwerp (1914), World War I
• Siege of Maubeuge (1914), World War I
• Siege of Malta (1940) (1940–1943)World War II
• Siege of Leningrad (1941–1944) - also known as the 900-Day Siege, probably the most gruesome in history, World War II
• The Siege of Dien Bien Phu (1954) — Vietnamese Viet Minh forces besieged French forces, effecting a final defeat on France's colonial occupation
• Siege of Erenköy (1964) - Turkish Cypriots holding out against attacking Greek and Greek Cypriot forces.
• Siege of Sarajevo (1992–1996)

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