Only Pondicherry was able to resist Defending , and a siege was instigated Process_start on 1 August 1793 by Colonel John Braithwaite while Cornwallis imposed Action a naval blockade .

Within 48 hours , Frederick had laid Placing siege Besieging to Breslau , which resulted in Causation that city 's surrender Surrendering on 19–20 December .

Besides the aforementioned knights , infantry , and siege Besieging engines , Alfonso also blockaded Besieging the city with ships on the river Adour .

The siege began Process_start with knights , infantry , and siege Besieging engines and included Cause_to_be_included the plundering of the environs of the city and assaults on its walls .

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

The siege Besieging was a failure , and was lifted after Alfonso had made Manufacturing his famous last will and testament .

It subsequently relates how for several days he plundered Robbery the countryside around Bayonne before assaulting Attack the city 's walls with siege Besieging engines brought Bringing from Aragon .

While still besieging Besieging Bayonne ( `` in obsessione Baione '' ) , Alfonso drafted Writing his will in October 1131 : it contains Containing the last datable reference to the siege Besieging .

The chief narrative source for the siege Besieging of Bayonne is the `` Chronica Adefonsi imperatoris '' , a contemporary account of events in Spain compiled to celebrate Social_event the feats of Alfonso VII of León and Castile .

The primary sources are insufficient to fully explain Statement the purposes behind Alfonso 's siege Besieging , but historians are unanimous in attributing his actions to his ongoing conflict Hostile_encounter with his western neighbour , Alfonso VII , hero of the aforementioned `` Chronica '' .

The siege began Process_start with knights , infantry , and siege Besieging engines and included Cause_to_be_included the plundering of the environs of the city and assaults on its walls .

The first direct reference to the siege dates from 26 October 1130 , when Alfonso issued Creating a `` fuero '' to the town of Corella from Bayonne , called Name_conferral `` the fortress of Bayonne '' ( `` illo castello de Baiona '' ) .

The former records how Pedro González de Lara , after he was captured Conquering by Alfonso VII for his part in the rebellion , joined Becoming_a_member the siege of Bayonne `` in order to bring him [ Alfonso the Battler ] back to Castile '' ( `` ut reducere eum in Castellam '' ) because he wanted `` to wage war in Castile '' ( `` facere bellum in Castella '' ) , that is , continue the revolt .

While Pedro 's capture occurred Coming_to_be in June , his death at the siege did not occur Coming_to_be until 16 October , according to the obituary of Burgos , where he is buried Placing .

The siege dragged on Change_event_time , however , and during his year-long absence from Spain , Alfonso the Battler lost Earnings_and_losses Castrojeriz and the other places he held Defending in Castile west of the Sierra de la Demanda to Alfonso VII .

The Aragonese king himself remained Presence at the siege throughout the end Process_end of 1130 , as charters he issued Creating on 19 November and in December indicate .

The siege continued through the summer , but in July and August Alfonso was leading forces Hostile_encounter in a place called Name_conferral `` Rocha Tallata '' or `` Rocathalada '' , possibly modern Peyrehorade .

When the siege was lifted is not known Know , but most of November 1131 must have been spent Expend_resource returning , by way of the Camino de Santiago , to Aragon .

The siege began Process_start on 15 September .

An assault by 7,500 Landsknechts in the Codalunga sector of the walls ( the one that was most bombarded Attack during the siege ) was repulsed Defending by mercenary commander Citolo da Perugia , whose mines killed Killing 300 attackers and injured Bodily_harm 400 others .

By 30 September , Maximilian , unable to pay Commerce_pay his mercenaries , lifted Motion the siege ; leaving Departing a small detachment in Italy under the Duke of Anhalt , he withdrew Escaping to Tyrol with the main part of his army .

On 16 March 1807 , 5000 British troops embarked Self_motion on the Alexandria expedition Traveling of 1807 and occupied Control Alexandria in August , although Khedive Muhammad Ali defeated Conquering them heavily and forced them to evacuate Removing five months later after a short siege Besieging ; however , the Ottoman Empire had a little military support Supporting from France in the war Hostile_encounter with Russia .

The Royalists ' unsuccessful siege Besieging of the city was a major step on the road to full-scale war which would start Process_start in earnest with the pitched battle Hostile_encounter of Edgehill on 23 October 1642 .

As a result Causation of the negotiations Communication , the siege of Jaffna was lifted Process_end and the Indo-Sri-Lankan accord was signed on Sign_agreement July 29 , 1987 .

PMRC issued Creating an appeal to the citizens of Petrograd and announced Expressing_publicly the state of siege .

The 1991 siege of Kijevo was one of the earliest conflicts Hostile_encounter in the Croatian War of Independence .

The initial siege was lifted Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale after negotiations that followed Motion major protests in Split against the JNA .

Martić was tried Self_motion at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ( ICTY ) on several different charges of war crimes including , his involvement Participation in the siege of Kijevo .

The siege was the first instance of use of the ethnic cleansing Emptying in the Yugoslav Wars .

Tokugawa was laying Placing siege Besieging to Osaka , and Hideyori had planned Arranging a counterattack Attack .

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

This siege was a prelude Process_start to the Battle of Bannockburn .

at the same time , they undertook Action a formal siege Besieging of roses .

The siege took place Process_start during the War of the Pyrenees which was part of the French Revolutionary Wars .

A relief column of 35,000 under the aging Prince Eugene of Savoy ( accompanied by Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia ) was unsuccessful in actually relieving Cure the siege .

Scipio built Building a ring of seven fortresses around Numantia itself before beginning Process_start the siege Besieging proper .

In that year , Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus tried and failed to take Conquering Numantia by siege Besieging , but subjugated Conquering all the other tribes of the Arevaci .

Tiberius Gracchus was present Presence as a quaestor during Mancinus 's failed siege .

The next five years were occupied Hold by Clement VI with attempts to negotiate Communication a truce with the Turks , who kept Preserving Smyrna in a constant state of siege by land and direct Aiming financial and military aid to the city .

although clement 's concern with the crusade ended Process_end abruptly in september 1351 , the city of smyrna remained in christian hands until the siege of smyrna by the timurids in 1402 .

Historian Tristram Hunt ( a former Labour MP ) has described Statement the confrontation as `` almost medieval in its choreography ... at various stages a siege , a battle Hostile_encounter , a chase Motion , a rout Destroying and , finally , a brutal example Protest of legalised state violence Violence '' .

The first siege , in August 1707 , resulted in Causation the destruction Destroying of the town , but Fort San Carlos de Austria successfully resisted Defending the onslaught .

However , Ivaylo broke Destroying the siege Besieging and Ivan Asen III fled Escaping back to the Byzantine Empire .

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

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 .

There are estimates that prior to the siege Besieging the population in the city proper was 435,000 .

The estimates of the number of persons living in Sarajevo after the siege Besieging ranged from between 300,000 and 380,000 .

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

When Bosnia and Herzegovina declared Expressing_publicly independence from Yugoslavia after the 1992 Bosnian independence referendum , the Bosnian Serbs—whose strategic goal was to create Creating a new Bosnian Serb state of Republika Srpska ( RS ) that would include Cause_to_be_included Bosniak-majority areas—encircled Sarajevo with a siege force of 13,000 stationed in the surrounding hills .

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 .