In 811 , al-Amin 's troops marched Self_motion against Khurasan , but al-Ma'mun 's general Tahir ibn Husayn defeated Conquering them in the Battle Hostile_encounter of Rayy , and then invaded Attack Iraq and besieged Besieging Baghdad itself .

After the convoy Patrolling was blocked Hindering by the Sri Lanka Navy , India instead chose Choosing to airdrop Bringing supplies Supply to the besieged Besieging city in a mission codenamed Operation Poomalai .

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 .

Grey 's force of 4,000 was originally intended as a relief force for the British garrison that was briefly besieged Besieging at Newport , Rhode Island , but they arrived Arriving after the Americans had retreated Escaping .

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 .

However , Axis supplies Supply were still reaching Arriving the besieged Besieging `` Afrika Korps '' by air .

Jervis ' ships besieged Besieging Cádiz but were repelled Removing by unexpected Spanish resistance .

Theophilos and his guard were besieged Besieging for a while on a hill , before making good their escape Escaping .

Ivaylo was defeated Conquering by the Mongols and besieged Besieging in the important fortress of Drastar .

They also besieged Besieging Madrid and the area to its south and west for much of the war .

After being initially besieged Besieging by the forces of the Yugoslav People 's Army , Sarajevo was besieged Besieging by the Army of Republika Srpska from 5 April 1992 to 29 February 1996 ( 1,425 days ) during the Bosnian War .

After being initially besieged Besieging by the forces of the Yugoslav People 's Army , Sarajevo was besieged Besieging by the Army of Republika Srpska from 5 April 1992 to 29 February 1996 ( 1,425 days ) during the Bosnian War .

The Bosnian government defence forces ( ARBiH ) inside the besieged city , 19 months since start Process_start of conflict Hostile_encounter , numbered some 70,000 troops , were poorly equipped Supply and unable to break Destroying the siege .

Swedish-Brandenburg forces were coming Motion to provide Supply relief Assistance to the besieged Besieging town of Kalisz , invested Expend_resource by Polish army under voivode of Malbork Jakub Wejher , brother of Ludwik Weyher .

Devoid of any hope of the relief forces Causation the besieged Swedish garrison of Kalisz surrendered Surrendering to the Polish army on November 8 , 1656 .

The attacks were primarily designed Creating to draw Removing the Army of Republika Srpska ( VRS ) away from the besieged Besieging city of Bihać .

The Carthaginian army under Hannibal Mago besieged Besieging the Dorian Greek city of Akragas in retaliation Revenge for the Greek raids on Punic colonies in Sicily .

The two countries fought Hostile_encounter to a stalemate over Angola , until in 1648 the governor of Rio de Janeiro and Angola , Salvador de Sá , reached Arriving Luanda and finding Know the city defended by 1200 Dutch troops , besieged Besieging them and regained Getting it for Portugal exactly seven years after its loss .

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 .

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 .

They relieved Cure the three besieged cities , and invaded Attack the two Boer republics in late 1900 .

in 1605 the governor of herat , unk khan , besieged Besieging the city but the tenacious defense Defending of the mughal governor , shah beg Convincing khan , and the arrival Arriving in the next year of a relieving Cure mughal army to kandahar forced Request the safavids to retreat Escaping .

Yazid 's army assaulted Attack anti-government rebels in Medina in August 683 and subsequently besieged Besieging Mecca , where Ibn al-Zubayr had established Creating himself in opposition to Yazid .

The Naval Battle Hostile_encounter of Tarragona fought Hostile_encounter between 4 and 6 July 1641 , was a naval engagement Participation of the Reapers ' War in which a Spanish galley fleet led Getting by the Duke of Fernandina attempted to break Destroying the French naval blockade over Tarragona , at that time besieged Besieging by land by the French and Catalan armies under the French Viceroy of Catalonia .

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 .

Telling of the same war , states that Rezin and Pekah besieged Besieging Jerusalem but failed Earnings_and_losses to capture Arrest it .

Lord Methuen advanced Self_motion up the railway line in November 1899 with the objective Aiming of relieving the besieged city of Kimberley ( and the town of Mafeking , also under siege Besieging ) .

The raid Military_operation , led Causation by Commodore Sir George Collier , was executed Action in an attempt to head off a planned Arranging second assault on Fort Cumberland , which had been besieged Besieging in November 1776 .

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 .

Habsburg and Württemberg regulars numbering 40,000 , under the command Control of Maximilian Anton Karl , Count Baillet de Latour , besieged Besieging and captured Conquering the French-controlled fortifications at the village of Kehl in the German state of Baden-Durlach .

The Archduke wanted to secure the Rhine crossings so he could send Sending troops to northern Italy to relieve Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser at besieged Mantua ; an armistice with Moreau would allow Preventing_or_letting him to do that .

The besieged Company forces and civilians in Cawnpore ( now Kanpur ) were unprepared for an extended siege and surrendered Surrendering to rebel forces under Nana Sahib , in return for a safe passage to Allahabad .

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 city , which was ringed by forts known as the National Redoubt , was besieged Besieging to the south and east by German forces .

the hama massacre Killing ( ) occurred Presence in february 1982 , when the syrian arab army and the defense companies , under the orders of the country 's president hafez al-assad , besieged Besieging the town of hama for 27 days in order to quell Hindering an uprising Violence by the muslim brotherhood against al-assad 's government .

the operation failed to achieve Achieve its declared Expressing_publicly primary goal of drawing vrs units away from the besieged Besieging city of UNK , but it placed Placing the hv in position to capture Conquering the rsk 's capital knin in operation storm Catastrophe days later .

Following Brumath , Julian went on to re-occupy Cologne ( Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium ) , and then went Motion into winter quarters in Senonae , modern Sens , where he was besieged Besieging by Frankish forces .

According to Jan Długosz , forces of the khan besieged Besieging both the city , and the castle .

Taking advantage of this failure , D. Luis de Haro , invaded Attack Portugal and besieged Elvas , the main defensive system of Portugal - where the Portuguese army that had besieged Besieging Badajoz took Creating refuge and was suffering Bodily_harm a second catastrophic plague .

Taking advantage of this failure , D. Luis de Haro , invaded Attack Portugal and besieged Elvas , the main defensive system of Portugal - where the Portuguese army that had besieged Besieging Badajoz took Creating refuge and was suffering Bodily_harm a second catastrophic plague .

After defending Defending the area for 21 days , the besieged Besieging Pakistani troops were ordered Request by their superiors to surrender Surrendering .

The defenders had been driven Motion into a series of pockets on the Baltic coast and in the city of Königsberg , in which they were besieged Besieging .

its most significant action was an expedition organized by massachusetts governor william shirley that besieged Besieging and ultimately captured Conquering the french fortress of louisbourg , on cape breton island in nova scotia , in 1745 .

After nineteen days of bombarding Attack the castle walls , the Ottomans launched Motion five successive general attacks Attack which all ended Process_end in victory for the besieged Besieging .

In response Response , the Republic sent Sending a local force to relieve Conquering the besieged Besieging fortress of Dagnum , and urged Request the Ottoman Empire to send Sending an expeditionary force into Albania .

A French army under the overall command of Maurice de Saxe , in a bold and innovative winter campaign besieged Besieging and captured Conquering the city of Brussels , which was then the capital of the Austrian Netherlands , from its Austrian garrison .

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

The Siege of Porto is considered the period between July 1832 and August 1833 in which the troops of Dom Pedro remained Presence besieged by the forces of Dom Miguel I of Portugal .

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

When Kuchlug besieged Besieging Almaliq , a city belonging to the Karluks , vassals of the Mongol Empire , Genghis Khan dispatched Sending a force under command Control of Jebe to pursue Kuchlug .