The strategically located city was heavily fortified Cause_change_of_strength and strongly defended Defending by a large and well prepared GetReady garrison of 7,000 men , that the Dutch were confident would hold Defending out long enough to wear down besiegers while awaiting a relief force to disrupt the siege Besieging .

These proved decisive in the Siege Besieging of Yorktown , effectively securing Getting independence Change_of_leadership for the Thirteen Colonies .

The Action of 15 November 1810 was a minor naval engagement Hostile_encounter fought Hostile_encounter during the British Royal Navy blockade Besieging of the French Channel ports in the Napoleonic Wars Hostile_encounter .

The final siege took place Process_start in 1746 , when Charles Edward Stuart besieged Besieging the castle during the final Jacobite rising .

Between 1571 and 1585 , the castle was besieged Besieging three times by Scots factions during the reign of James VI .

The Siege of Almeida took place Process_start in August 1762 when a Spanish force besieged Besieging and captured Conquering the city of Almeida from its Portuguese defenders during the Seven Years ' War .

It succeeded insofar as Bonaparte lifted Process_end the siege Besieging in order to have the manpower sufficient to meet the threat .

Another four-week siege Besieging followed Self_motion in August–September 1513 .

British dominance Control at sea , enforced Action by a strategy of close blockade Besieging , made it Causation difficult for the French Navy to operate Military_operation even in their own territorial waters .

The Ulm Campaign in October 1805 was catastrophic for Austria , with only the corps of Michael von Kienmayer and Franz Jellacic escaping Escaping envelopment Besieging and capture Conquering by the Grande Armée of Napoleon .

The siege Besieging of Paris and the sack of Paris of 845 was the culmination of a Viking invasion Attack of France .

The siege Besieging itself consisted Cause_to_be_included of a joint Franco-American attempt to retake Conquering Savannah , from September 16 to October 18 , 1779 .

The police station was blockaded Besieging by the JNA three months later , and captured Conquering in late August 1991 .

Garrisons were effectively besieged Besieging and denied Agree_or_refuse_to_act shipments of food and medical supplies , and as a result , some claim Statement that 97 % of Japanese deaths Death in this campaign were from non-combat causes Causation .

After a costly eleven-month siege Besieging , Justin of Nassau surrendered Surrendering Breda on 2 June 1625 .

The conflict Hostile_encounter started Process_start on 12 July 2006 , and continued until a United Nations-brokered ceasefire went into effect Resolve_problem in the morning on 14 August 2006 , though it formally ended Process_end on 8 September 2006 when Israel lifted its naval blockade Besieging of Lebanon .

The Siege Besieging of Cawnpore was a key episode in the Indian rebellion of 1857 .

The battle Hostile_encounter was strategically decisive , in that it prevented Preventing_or_letting the Royal Navy from reinforcing Cause_change_of_strength or evacuating Emptying the besieged Besieging forces Causation of Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown , Virginia .

When Blake 's army advanced Self_motion from Valencia to raise Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the siege Besieging , Suchet posted Sending his somewhat smaller army to resist Defending the Spanish .

Mohr 's force Military_operation crossed Motion_directional the river near Karczew and on April 24 besieged Besieging the small Polish garrison of Praga .

In the final stage , he entrenched himself within besieged Besieging Petersburg before finally fleeing Escaping westward across Virginia .

Ironically , the besieging Besieging army included Cause_to_be_included a contingent from the Byzantine Empire , which by then was a vassal of the Ottomans .

The arrival Arriving of a relief army led to Causation a famous joust and the prolongation of the siege Besieging .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Cockpit Point , the Battle Hostile_encounter of Freestone Point , or the Battle Hostile_encounter of Shipping Point , took place Process_start on January 3 , 1862 , in Prince William County , Virginia , as part of the blockade Besieging of the Potomac River during the American Civil War Military_operation .

The was a hostage crisis Catastrophe and police siege Besieging in a mountain lodge near Karuizawa in Nagano Prefecture , Japan that lasted from February 19 to February 28 , 1972 .

During the siege Besieging , a-16 kilometer-long circumvallation line was made Manufacturing around Grol in order to prevent Preventing_or_letting the enemy from leaving Departing and to prevent Preventing_or_letting liberation of the city from the outside .

In the face of Byzantine reinforcements , the new Arab leader , Muhammad ibn Abi ' l-Jawari , abandoned GiveUp the siege Besieging and withdrew Escaping to the southwestern part of the island , which remained in their hands .

The Spanish attempt to raise Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the siege Besieging of the Sagunto Castle failed when the French , Italians , and Poles drove their troops off the battlefield in rout Destroying .

By the sixth day of the siege Besieging the gunmen had become Becoming increasingly frustrated at the lack of progress in meeting Social_event their demands Request .

There have been at least eight sieges Besieging of Stirling Castle , a strategically important fortification in Stirling , Scotland .

When Charles laid Placing siege Besieging to Gloucester , Parliament was forced to muster a force under Essex with which to beat Bodily_harm Charles ' forces Hostile_encounter off .

a british ship of the line , hms `` swiftsure '' under captain benjamin hallowell was passing Motion_directional westwards through the southern mediterranean near cape derna when it encountered Hostile_encounter a much larger french squadron under contre-amiral UNK ganteaume that was also returning Arriving westwards after a failed attempt to reinforce the besieged Besieging french garrison in egypt .

The blockade Besieging had achieved Achieve some minor successes ; in October 1810 `` Revenge '' had captured Conquering the privateer `` Vengeur '' from Dieppe , and on 6 November `` Donegal '' ran Self_motion down and seized Conquering the privateer `` Surcouf '' from Cherbourg .

Hood 's fleet was delayed Change_event_time by the Siege of Toulon , but in February 1794 supplied Supply a small expeditionary force which successfully defeated Conquering the French garrison of San Fiorenzo and then a larger force which besieged Besieging the town of Bastia .

As part of its 2005 disengagement plan , Israel retained Preserving exclusive control over Gaza 's airspace and territorial waters , continued to patrol Patrolling and monitor the external land perimeter of the Gaza Strip , with the exception of its southernmost border ( where Egypt retained Preserving control of the border and border crossings were supervised Scrutiny by European monitors ) and continued to monitor and blockade Besieging Gaza 's coastline .

Police have been criticised Judgment_communication over their handling Hold of the siege Besieging for not taking Action proactive action earlier , for the deaths Death of hostages at the end Process_end of the siege , and for the lack of negotiation Communication during the siege Besieging .

The two fleets sailed Self_motion within view Perception_active of each other for several days , but de Grasse preferred Choosing to lure Influence the British away from the bay where de Barras was expected to arrive Arriving carrying Carry_goods vital siege Besieging equipment .

The siege Besieging of Inverness Castle took place Process_start in 1562 .

The Siege Besieging of Aleppo lasted Process_end from 18 January to 24 January 1260 .

The 1991 census indicates Communication that before the siege Besieging the city and its surrounding areas had a population of 525,980 .

For two days the British frigates kept watch Scrutiny , until two ships of the line from the blockade Besieging of Cherbourg , HMS `` Donegal '' and HMS `` Revenge '' , arrived Arriving .

at the end Process_end of the great retreat Escaping , the race to the sea began Process_start , a period of reciprocal attempts by the germans and franco-british to outflank Besieging their opponents , extending Change_event_time the front line northwards from the aisne , into picardy , artois and flanders .

The Siege of Antwerp ( , , ) was an engagement Forming_relationships between the German and the Belgian , British and French armies around the fortified Cause_change_of_strength city of Antwerp during World War I. German troops besieged Besieging a garrison of Belgian fortress troops , the Belgian field army and the British Royal Naval Division in the Antwerp area , after the German invasion Attack of Belgium in August 1914 .

The siege Besieging of Ancona was a battle Hostile_encounter in the Neapolitan War .

The battle , also known as the `` Third Battle of Puebla '' , was the end of a siege Besieging on the city of Puebla which started Process_start on March 9 of the same year .

They liberated Besieging numerous towns and cities in the initial months of the conflict .

In response Trajan again marched Self_motion into Dacia , besieging Besieging the Dacian capital in the Siege of Sarmizegetusa , and razing Destroying it .

The siege Besieging of De'an in 1132 was the first recorded Recording use of the fire lance , an early ancestor of firearms .

After an unsuccessful Byzantine attempt to murder Killing him ruined Destroying all prospects for negotiations with them , Krum ravaged Destroying much of Eastern Thrace and then turned Change against Adrianople which was still under siege Besieging .

The 9th Corps of the Yugoslav People 's Army ( `` Jugoslovenska Narodna Armija '' – JNA ) led by Colonel Ratko Mladić and the forces of the Serbian Autonomous Oblast ( region ) of Krajina ( SAO Krajina ) under Knin police chief Milan Martić besieged Besieging the Croat-inhabited village of Kijevo in late April and early May 1991 .