List of sieges
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A siege is a prolonged military assault and blockade on a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition. What follows a chronological list of sieges.
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Military sieges
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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 Saguntum (218 BCE) - 'casus belli' for the Second Punic War
- Siege of Syracuse (213–212 BCE) - the Roman siege
- Siege of Carthage (149–146 BCE) by Scipio Aemilianus Africanus
- Siege of Numantia (134–133 BCE) by Scipio Aemilianus Africanus
- Siege of Alesia (52 BCE)
- Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE) - the Roman siege of Titus
- Siege of Masada (72 CE)
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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 (1097–1098) - part of the First Crusade
- Siege of Capua (1098)
- 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 Zara (1202) - part of the Fourth Crusade
- Siege of Constantinople (1204) - part of the Fourth Crusade
- Siege of Gibraltar (1309) - first siege of Gibraltar, by Juan Alfonso de Guzman el Bueno in the Reconquista
- Siege of Gibraltar (1316) - second siege of Gibraltar, by the Nasrid caid Yahya in the Reconquista
- Siege of Kamakura (1333) - end of Ashikaga shogunate.
- Siege of Gibraltar (1333) - third siege of Gibraltar, by a Marinids army, lead by Abd al-Malik in the Reconquista
- Siege of Gibraltar (1333) - fourth siege of Gibraltar, by king Alfonso XI of Castile in the Reconquista
- Siege of Caffa (1346)
- Siege of Calais (1346–1347) - Hundred Years' War
- Siege of Gibraltar (1349–1350) - fifth siege of Gibraltar, by Alfonso XI in the Reconquista
- Siege of Gibraltar (1374) - sixth siege of Gibraltar, by the Nasrid in the Reconquista
- Siege of Rouen (1418) - reopening of the Hundred Years War
- Siege of Orleans (1429)
- Siege of Gibraltar (1436) - seventh siege of Gibraltar, by the count of Niebla in the Reconquista
- Siege of Constantinople (1453)
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Early modern
- Siege of Gibraltar (1462) - eighth siege of Gibraltar, by a Castilian army in the Reconquista
- Siege of Gibraltar (1467) - ninth siege of Gibraltar, by the Duke of Medina Sidonia
- Siege of Gibraltar (1506) - tenth siege of Gibraltar, by the Duke of Medina Sidonia
- 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 (1570–1571)
- 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 (1581–1582)
- 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 - (1609–1611) - 20 months
- Siege of Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra (1609-1611) - 16 months Image:Petersburg seige.jpg
- Siege of Osaka (1614–1615)
- Siege of Breda (1624–1625)
- Siege of La Rochelle (1627–1628)
- Siege of Nuremberg (1632), Thirty Years' War
- Siege of Hara fortress (1637–1638)
- Siege of Azov (1637–1642)
- Siege of Candia (Crete) (1648–1669) - possibly the longest siege in history
- Siege of Drogheda (1649) -Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
- Siege of Wexford 1649
- Siege of Waterford 1649-1650
- Siege of Clonmel (1650)
- Cromwell's Siege of Limerick City, Ireland (1651)
- Siege of Galway 1652
- Siege of Copenhagen (1658–1659)
- Siege of Solovetsky Monastery (1668–1676) - eight years
- Siege of Groningen (1672)
- Siege of Maastricht (1673)
- Siege of Derry (1689)
- Siege of Athlone 1691
- Williamite Siege of Limerick City, Ireland (1690–1691)
- Siege of Gibraltar (1704) - eleventh siege of Gibraltar, by an Anglo-Dutch fleet under the comand of sir George Rooke
- Siege of Gibraltar (1704–1705) - twelfth siege of Gibraltar, by a Spanish-French army
- Siege of Turin (1706)
- Siege of Lille (1708)
- Siege of Gibraltar (1727) - thirteenth siege of Gibraltar, by a Spanish army
- Siege of Gdansk (1734)
- Siege of Quebec City (1759)
- Siege of Kolberg (1761)
- Siege of Boston (1775–1776)
- Siege of Gibraltar (1779–1783) - fourteenth siege of Gibraltar, by a Spanish-French army in the American Revolutionary War
- Siege of Yorktown (1781)
- Siege of Mantua (1796–1797)
- Siege of Seringapatam (1799)
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Modern
- First and Second sieges of Saragossa (1808–1809) - Peninsular War
- Siege of Girona (1808-1809) - Peninsular War
- Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (1810) - Peninsular War
- Siege of Badajoz (1812) - Peninsular War
- Siege of the Alamo (1836)
- Siege of Veracruz (1847) - First U.S. amphibious landing
- Siege of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (1854)
- Siege of Taganrog (1855)
- Siege of Sebastopol (1856)
- 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 (1904–1905)
- Siege of Antwerp (1914), World War I
- Siege of Maubeuge (1914), World War I
- Siege of Alcazar (1936) - Second Spanish Republic militias besieged the Alcazar of Toledo in the Spanish Civil War
- 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 Beirut (1982)
- Siege of Sarajevo (1992–1996)
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Fictional
- Battle of the Hornburg (The Lord of the Rings:The Two Towers)
- Battle of the Pelennor Fields (The Lord of the Rings:The Return of the King)
- Battle of Tyrsis (The Sword of Shannara)
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Police sieges
- Sidney Street Siege (1911)
- Attica Siege (1971)
- Munich Olympic Massacre (1972)
- Wounded Knee Siege (1973)
- Norrmalmstorg robbery (1973) famous for the Stockholm syndrome
- Spaghetti House Siege (1975)
- Balcombe Street Siege (1975)
- MOVE Siege (1978)
- Iranian Embassy Siege (1980)
- Waco Siege (1993)
- Montana Freemen Siege (1996)
- Japanese embassy hostage crisis (1996–1997)
- Republic of Texas Embassy Siege (1997)
- Moscow Theatre Siege (2002)
- Beslan hostage crisis (2004)de:Liste von Belagerungen
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