After a number of assaults were repelled Defending , a Spanish relief force under Juan del Águila attempted to relieve Cure the garrison , but it was delayed Change_event_time by French cavalry and could not reach Arriving the garrison in time .

though jahangir had information Getting of the persian 's movements he was slow Change_event_time to respond Response , and without reinforcements Cause_change_of_strength the small garrison of 3,000 men could not hold Defending for long .

The Invasion of Ceylon was a military campaign fought as a series of amphibious operations between the summer of 1795 and spring of 1796 between the garrison of the Batavian colonies on the Indian Ocean island of Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ) and a British invasion Attack force sent Sending from British India .

Yet these attacks were only partially successful due Causation to the strength Cause_change_of_strength of the garrison .

The defenses were largely obsolete and 7,000 of the 23,000-strong French garrison were National Guard militiamen .

The engagement Hostile_encounter formed Coming_to_be part of a series of actions fought Hostile_encounter to prevent Preventing_or_letting the French from resupplying Supply their garrison in Egypt , which had been trapped Placing there without significant reinforcement since the defeat Conquering of the French Mediterranean Fleet at the Battle Hostile_encounter of the Nile two and a half years earlier .

The frigate `` Africaine '' had been sent Sending from Rochefort early in 1801 with more than 400 soldiers for the Egyptian garrison , and by February had reached Arriving the Mediterranean Sea , Commodore Saulnier seeking Hold to pass Motion_directional along the North African coast to avoid Preventing_or_letting patrolling Patrolling Royal Navy warships .

By the end of 1 July , the village had been enveloped Besieging on three sides and during the night , the German garrison withdrew Escaping towards the second position .

on april 10 , 1589 , the garrison of geertruidenberg , composed Come_together of numerous english and some dutch troops commanded Control by governor sir john wingfield , surrendered Surrendering the city to the army of flanders led by don alexander farnese , governor-general of the spanish netherlands ( ) .

The garrison capitulated Surrendering to the Spaniards in February 1590 .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Loznica involved Cause_to_be_included an attack Attack on the German garrison of that town by the Jadar Chetnik Detachment on 31 August 1941 .

This battle Hostile_encounter was closely followed Motion by the joint Partisan-Chetnik attack Attack on the German garrison at Banja Koviljača .

Both sides faced Perception_active acute shortages of food – the Gibraltar garrison was cut off Process_end from resupply Supply , while the Castilians , deep within enemy territory , could only be resupplied via an unreliable sea route .

`` stonewall '' jackson surrounded Surrounding , bombarded Attack , and captured Conquering the union garrison at harpers ferry , virginia ( now west virginia ) , a major victory Getting at relatively minor cost Cost .

as lee 's army of northern virginia advanced Motion down the shenandoah valley into maryland , he planned Arranging to capture Conquering the garrison at harpers ferry to secure his line of supply Supply back to virginia .

The Tuscan garrison was heavily outnumbered , but received Receiving significant support from British Royal Navy forces who controlled Control the Mediterranean Sea and ensured Cause_to_make_progress that supplies reached Arriving the garrison and that French supply convoys were intercepted .

The Tuscan garrison was heavily outnumbered , but received Receiving significant support from British Royal Navy forces who controlled Control the Mediterranean Sea and ensured Cause_to_make_progress that supplies reached Arriving the garrison and that French supply convoys were intercepted .

With Warsaw little more than a military garrison Hostile_encounter , its university closed Self_motion .

The attack Attack by the Anzac Mounted Division took place Process_start against an entrenched Ottoman Army garrison to the south and east of Bir Lahfan in the Sinai desert , some inland from the Mediterranean coast .

This Egyptian Expeditionary Force ( EEF ) victory against the Ottoman Empire garrison also secured the town of El Arish after the Ottoman garrison withdrew .

This Egyptian Expeditionary Force ( EEF ) victory against the Ottoman Empire garrison also secured the town of El Arish after the Ottoman garrison withdrew .

An Ottoman Army garrison in a strong defensive Defending position was located at Magdhaba , some inland to the south east , on the Wadi el Arish .

As U.S. agitators for war well knew Know , U.S. naval power would prove decisive , allowing Preventing_or_letting expeditionary forces to disembark Arriving in Cuba against a Spanish garrison already facing Perception_active nationwide Cuban insurgent attacks Attack and further wasted Expend_resource by yellow fever .

At St. John 's the local garrison of the `` Royal Newfoundland Regiment '' , the `` Royal Artillery '' , the `` Royal Newfoundland Volunteers '' , aided Assistance by most able-bodied men , established Building a camp atop Signal Hill at the beginning of September .

The combined expedition destroyed Destroying over 100 fishing vessels from the Newfoundland fleet and burned Bodily_harm fishing stations along the Newfoundland coast , including the base of the English garrison at Placentia Bay .

The Corsican people had risen Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale up against the French garrison of the island in 1793 , and sought Getting support Supporting from the British Royal Navy 's Mediterranean Fleet under Lord Hood .

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 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 .

The American force advertised its presence Presence by attempting Hold to attack Attack British outposts elsewhere on Lake Huron and Georgian Bay , so when they eventually landed Self_motion on Mackinac Island , the garrison was prepared GetReady to meet Come_together them .

Mogue Kearns attacked Attack the garrison at Bunclody as part of the Wexford rebels campaign Military_operation against border garrisons .

The garrison was forewarned Warning of the approaching rebels and had prepared GetReady defensive Defending outposts facing the rebel line of advance Self_motion .

Seizing the moment , the rebels quickly moved Self_motion in , forcing Causation the garrison to flee Escaping across the bridge into County Carlow but crucially , failed Earnings_and_losses to occupy Control this approach to the town .

Meanwhile , the garrison had paused Process_end in their retreat Escaping and upon hearing the sound of gunfire from the town , turned Change about and launched Process_start a surprise attack Attack back across the bridge , which caught Hold the rebels , distracted Causation by the unexpected pockets of resistance , completely by surprise .

The consequences of losing Earnings_and_losses Martinique were so severe , that the French Navy sent Sending a battle Hostile_encounter squadron to reinforce Cause_change_of_strength the garrison during the invasion Attack .

One squadron from each of the 3rd and 4th Light Horse Brigades Australian Mounted Division attacked Attack and captured Conquering Tiberias ( on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee also known as Lake Tiberias ) , along with the Yildirim Army Group 's Ottoman and German garrison .

The Tiberias garrison formed Cause_to_amalgamate part of a rearguard stretching Expansion to Samakh and on to Deraa which was intended to cover the retreat Escaping of three Ottoman armies .

The remainder of the garrison retreated Escaping northwards to form Cause_to_amalgamate a rearguard at Lake Hule with the survivors from the Samakh garrison .

The remainder of the garrison retreated Escaping northwards to form Cause_to_amalgamate a rearguard at Lake Hule with the survivors from the Samakh garrison .

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 Belgian garrison had no hope of victory without relief and despite the arrival Arriving of the Royal Naval Division beginning Process_start on 3 October , the Germans penetrated Attack the outer ring of forts .

On 9 October , the remaining Presence garrison surrendered Surrendering , the Germans occupied Control the city and some British and Belgian troops escaped Escaping to the Netherlands to the north and were interned Education_teaching for the duration of the war .

The Desert Column of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force ( EEF ) attacked Attack an entrenched Ottoman Army garrison at El Magruntein to the south of Rafah , close to the frontier between the Sultanate of Egypt and the Ottoman Empire , to the north and east of Sheikh Zowaiid .

During the day-long assault Attack , the Ottoman garrison defended Defending El Magruntein 's series of fortified redoubts and trenches on rising Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale ground surrounded Surrounding by flat grassland .

The British garrison surrendered Surrendering the next day .

The British garrison under George Augustus Eliott were blockaded Besieging from June 1779 , initially by the Spanish alone , led by Martín Álvarez de Sotomayor .

The same year , a major assault was planned Arranging by the Spanish , but the Gibraltar garrison sortied Hostile_encounter in November and destroyed Destroying much of the forward batteries .

The siege then settled Resolve_problem down again to more of a blockade , but the final defeat Conquering for the allies came when a crucial British relief Assistance convoy under Admiral Richard Howe slipped Motion through the blockading fleet and arrived at Arriving the garrison in October 1782 .

Several nights later , the garrison launched Process_start a secret attack Attack of their own on the enemy camp at Nagaokayama .

The garrison 's warriors allegedly used Using passwords to help them determine friend from foe , while their foes killed Killing many of their own in the confusion .

leaving Departing detachments to hold Defending the captured bridge and fords , chaytor 's force began Process_start their eastwards advance by attacking Attack and capturing Conquering the fourth army garrison at shunet nimrin on their way to capture Conquering es salt for a third time .