`` For other sieges with this name , see Siege of Pondicherry ( disambiguation ) '' The Siege of Pondicherry was a colonial military operation Military_operation in the early stages of the French Revolutionary Wars .

`` For other sieges with this name , see Siege of Pondicherry ( disambiguation ) '' The Siege of Pondicherry was a colonial military operation Military_operation in the early stages of the French Revolutionary Wars .

The Siege of Bayonne was launched Process_start by Alfonso the Battler , King of Aragon and Navarre , apparently against the Duke of Aquitaine , William X , and lasted Process_end from October 1130 to October 1131 .

The Siege of Padua was a major engagement early in the War of the League of Cambrai .

The action had strategic consequences : the Republican faction in Genoa was strong and they successfully barred Austrian reinforcements from sailing Self_motion to join Becoming_a_member the Allied garrison at the developing Siege of Toulon .

The Siege of Hull in 1642 was the first major action of the English Civil War .

The Siege of Roxburgh was a siege that took place Process_start in 1314 .

The Siege of Roses ( or Siege of Rosas ) began Process_start on 28 November 1794 and lasted Process_end until 4 February 1795 when the Spanish garrison abandoned GiveUp the port and the forces of the First French Republic took control .

The Siege of Roses ( or Siege of Rosas ) began Process_start on 28 November 1794 and lasted Process_end until 4 February 1795 when the Spanish garrison abandoned GiveUp the port and the forces of the First French Republic took control .

The Siege of Philippsburg was conducted Action by French forces against forces in the fortress of Philippsburg in the Rhine River valley during the War of the Polish Succession .

American defeats Conquering at the Siege of Detroit and the Battle of Queenston Heights thwarted attempts to seize Conquering Upper Canada , improving British morale .

The Siege of Pensacola was two separate attempts in 1707 by English-supported Creek Indians to capture Conquering the town and fortress of Pensacola , one of two major settlements ( the other was St. Augustine ) in Spanish Florida .

The Siege of Sarajevo was the siege Besieging of the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina , and the longest of a capital city in the history of modern warfare .

The siege lasted three times longer than the Battle of Stalingrad and more than a year longer than the Siege of Leningrad .

The Sixth Siege of Gibraltar in 1411 was the only occasion on which control of Gibraltar was contested Hostile_encounter between two Islamic powers .

After the failed Fifth Siege of Gibraltar in 1349–50 , which ended Process_end with the death of King Alfonso XI of Castile from bubonic plague , the Kingdom of Castile was preoccupied with the Castilian Civil War and its aftermath .

In 1369 , Sultan Muhammed V of Granada took advantage of the Castilians ' distractions and in the Siege of Algeciras ( 1369 ) he seized Hold the city of Algeciras , on the west side of the Bay of Gibraltar , which Alfonso XI had captured in 1344 .

Shortly after the First Siege of Krujë , Murad II died Death in Edirne , only to be succeeded Change_of_leadership by his son Mehmed II .

The Wukan protests , also known as the Siege of Wukan , was an anti-corruption protest that began in September 2011 , and escalated in December 2011 with the expulsion of officials by villagers , the siege of the town by police , and subsequent détente in the southern Chinese village of Wukan ( pop .

The Siege of Akragas took place Process_start in 406 BC in Sicily ; the Carthaginian enterprise ultimately lasted a total of eight months .

The Third Siege of Gibraltar was mounted Process_start between February–June 1333 by a Moorish army under the prince Abd al-Malik Abd al-Wahid of Morocco .

The Siege of Homs was a military confrontation between the Syrian military and the Syrian opposition in the city of Homs as a part of the Syrian Civil War .

The Siege of Belfort ( 3 November 1870 – 18 February 1871 ) was a 103-day military assault and blockade of the city of Belfort , France by Prussian forces during the Franco-Prussian War .

The Siege of Madras was a siege Besieging of Madras , which was then under English rule , between December 1758 and February 1759 by French forces under the command Control of Lally during the Seven Years ' War .

The Siege of Gaeta ( 26 February - 18 July 1806 ) saw the fortress city of Gaeta and its Neapolitan garrison under Louis of Hesse-Philippsthal besieged Besieging by an Imperial French corps led by André Masséna .

Stephen then almost seized Matilda in 1142 during the Siege of Oxford , but the Empress escaped Escaping from Oxford Castle across the frozen River Thames to safety .

The situation did not stabilize Cause_change_of_strength until after the failure of the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople in 718 , when the Taurus Mountains on the eastern rim of Asia Minor became Becoming established Creating as the mutual , heavily fortified and largely depopulated frontier .

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 .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of the Crater was a battle Hostile_encounter of the American Civil War , part of the Siege of Petersburg .

It may have been Grant 's best chance to end Process_end the Siege of Petersburg .

The Siege of Algeciras ( 1342–44 ) was undertaken during the Reconquest of Spain by the Castillian forces of Alfonso XI assisted Assistance by the fleets of the Kingdom of Aragon and the Republic of Genoa .

The Siege of Fort Crozon or the Siege of El Leon was a land and sea engagement that took place Process_start late in the French wars of religion and the Anglo-Spanish War ( 1585–1604 ) .

The Siege of Fort Crozon or the Siege of El Leon was a land and sea engagement that took place Process_start late in the French wars of religion and the Anglo-Spanish War ( 1585–1604 ) .

Under the leadership of Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan , the Umayyads reasserted Recovering control over the caliphate after defeating the Zubayrids at the Battle of Maskin in Iraq and killing Ibn al-Zubayr in the Siege of Mecca in 692 .

The Siege of Strasbourg took place Process_start during the Franco-Prussian War , and resulted in Causation the French surrender Surrendering of the fortress on 28 September 1870 .

The Siege of Exeter occurred Coming_to_be in 1068 when William I marched Self_motion a combined army of Normans and Englishmen loyal to the king west to force the submission of Exeter , a stronghold of Anglo-Saxon resistance against Norman rule .

The Yorktown or Virginia campaign was a series of military maneuvers and battles Hostile_encounter during the American Revolutionary War that culminated Process_end in the decisive Siege of Yorktown in October 1781 .

The Siege of Yorktown began Process_start on September 28 , 1781 .

The Fourth Siege of Gibraltar , fought Hostile_encounter from June until August 1333 , pitted a Christian army under King Alfonso XI of Castile against a large Moorish army led by Muhammed IV of Granada and Abd al-Malik Abd al-Wahid of Fes .

It followed on immediately from the Third Siege of Gibraltar , fought Hostile_encounter earlier in 1333 .

The Siege of Porto Ferrajo was a French attempt to force Control the surrender of the Tuscan fortress town of Porto Ferrajo ( now Portoferraio ) on the island of Elba following the French occupation of mainland Tuscany in 1801 during the French Revolutionary Wars .

According to some early medieval sources , the Siege of Exeter or Siege of Caer-Uisc was a military conflict Hostile_encounter that took place Process_start in or around 630 CE , between the Mercians , led by Penda of Mercia , and the Britons occupying Caer-Uisc ( Exeter ) in the kingdom of Dumnonia .

According to some early medieval sources , the Siege of Exeter or Siege of Caer-Uisc was a military conflict Hostile_encounter that took place Process_start in or around 630 CE , between the Mercians , led by Penda of Mercia , and the Britons occupying Caer-Uisc ( Exeter ) in the kingdom of Dumnonia .

Castiglione was the first attempt by the Austrian army to break Destroying the French Siege Besieging of Mantua , which was the primary Austrian fortress in northern Italy .

The Siege of Calvi was a combined Cause_to_amalgamate British and Corsican military operation Military_operation during the Invasion of Corsica in the early stages of the French Revolutionary Wars .

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 .

The Siege of Fort St. Jean ( also called St. John , St. Johns , or St. John 's ) was conducted Action by American Brigadier General Richard Montgomery on the town and fort of Saint-Jean in the British province of Quebec during the American Revolutionary War .

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

Following the Siege of Vienna in 1683 the Habsburgs were able to assemble Come_together a large coalition of European powers known as the Holy League , allowing Preventing_or_letting them to effectively combat Hostile_encounter the Ottomans and to regain Getting control over Hungary .

The Siege of Polotsk ( , ) was a siege by forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth under Stefan Bathory on the Russian-held city of Polotsk .