He assaulted Attack the city and was repulsed Defending several times before being routed and encircled , and so forced to accept Agree_or_refuse_to_act a treaty , negotiated by a young Tiberius Gracchus .

In the following days , the government arrested Arrest three photographers , two bloggers , a lawyer and a politician , and prevented Preventing_or_letting human rights activists and journalists from entering Arriving the country , deported Removing an American teacher and reportedly encircled Besieging entire areas with barbed wire .

Right after that , all the Russian forces Military_operation attacked Attack and quickly encircled Besieging the main Turkish army on the left-bank .

The Russian commander let Ahmet escape Escaping because he knew that , according to Turkish law , the encircled Besieging Grand Vizier could not take part Dispersal in peace negotiations Communication - and peace is what Kutuzov needed .

With all the supply Supply lines being cut off Having_or_lacking_access , the encircled Besieging Turks were threatened Influence by hunger and disease Cure .

In response Response , the Russians took Conquering all the surrounding Surrounding forts and cut Removing all the supply Supply lines to the encircled Besieging Turks .

The Soviet 59th Army attacked Attack westwards from the Krivasoo Bridgehead south of the city of Narva and encircled Besieging the strong-points of the 214th Infantry Division and the Estonian 658th and 659th East Battalions .

The resistance of the encircled Besieging units gave Giving time for the command Control of the `` Narwa '' to move Motion in all available forces Hostile_encounter and stop Preventing_or_letting the Soviet advance Cause_to_make_progress .

On top of this numerous Greek divisions were encircled Besieging and destroyed Destroying as effective fighting units meaning that the Greek army had lost Earnings_and_losses its offensive capabilities and was unable to organize Arranging a controlled retreat Escaping , leading to a large number of Greek POWs .

The Demyansk Pocket ( ; ) was the name given Giving to the pocket of German troops encircled Besieging by the Red Army around Demyansk , south of Leningrad , during World War II on the Eastern Front .

They were eventually encircled Besieging by Australian Light Horsemen , New Zealand mounted riflemen , mounted Yeomanry , cameliers and armoured cars .

A series of Royalist attacks Attack led to Causation a large number of casualties Catastrophe and the slow retreat Escaping of Essex 's force , which was driven Motion from the central hill and almost encircled Surrounding ; Essex succeeded in rallying Military_operation his infantry , however , and pushed Motion forward in a counter-attack Attack .

The encircled troops were forced Motion to capitulate Response due Causation to lack of supplies Supply on 11 December .

Various forces — Israeli , Phalangists and possibly also the South Lebanon Army ( SLA ) — were in the vicinity of Sabra and Shatila at the time of the slaughter , taking Action advantage of the fact that the Multinational Force had removed Removing barracks and mines that had encircled Attack Beirut 's predominantly Muslim neighborhoods and kept Temporary_stay the Israelis at bay during the Beirut siege .

Between 27 November and 13 December , 30,000 United Nations Command Request troops ( later nicknamed Name_conferral `` The Chosin Few '' ) under the field command Control of Major General Oliver P. Smith were encircled and attacked Attack by about 120,000 Chinese troops under the command Control of Song Shilun , who had been ordered Request by Mao Zedong to destroy Destroying the UN forces .