List of sieges
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The 1453 Siege of Constantinople (painted 1499)
A siege is a prolonged military assault and blockade on a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition. What follows a chronological list of sieges.
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Military sieges
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Ancient
- Siege of Megiddo (c. 1457 BCE)
- Siege of Dapur (c. 1296 BCE)
- Siege of Troy (c. 1200 BCE)
- Siege of Hermopolis (c. 715 BCE)
- Siege of Jerusalem (701 BCE) - the Assyrian siege of Sennacherib
- Siege of Syracuse (415 BCE) - the Athenian siege
- Siege of Tyre (332 BCE) by Alexander the Great
- Siege of Rhodes (305 BCE) by Demetrius Poliorcetes
- Siege of Agrigentum (261 BCE) (First Punic War between the Roman Republic and Carthage)
- Siege of Syracuse (213–212 BCE) - the Roman siege
- Siege of Alesia (52 BCE)
- Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE) - the Roman siege of Titus
- Siege of Masada (72 CE)
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Medieval
- Siege of Rome (537-538)
- Siege of Constantinople (674-678)
- Siege of Constantinople (717-718)
- Siege of Pavia (773-774)
- Siege of Paris (885-886)
- Siege of Graus (Spring 1063)
- Siege of Nicaea (1097) - part of the First Crusade
- Siege of Antioch (1097-98) - part of the First Crusade
- Siege of Jerusalem (1099) - part of the First Crusade
- Siege of Edessa (1144)
- Siege of Lisbon (1147)
- Siege of Damascus (1148)
- Siege of Sanjo Palace (1160) - the main action of the Heiji Rebellion took place in Kyoto
- Siege of Nara (1180) - during Genpei War
- Siege of Jerusalem (1187)
- Siege of Acre (1189)
- Siege of Constantinople (1204) - part of the Fourth Crusade
- Siege of Kamakura (1333) - end of Ashikaga shogunate.
- Siege of Caffa (1346)
- Siege of Calais - Hundred Years' War
- Siege of Rouen(1418) - reopening of the Hundred Years War
- Siege of Orleans (1429)
- Siege of Constantinople (1453)
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Early modern
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Monks successfully defended the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra against the Poles from September 1609 to January 1611.
- Siege of Smolensk (1514)
- Siege of Tenochtitlan (1521)
- Siege of Rhodes (1522)
- Siege of Vienna (1529)
- Siege of Kazan (1552)
- Siege of Leith (1560)
- Siege of Malta (1565)
- Turkish siege of Nicosia, Cyprus (1570)
- Turkish siege of Famagusta, Cyprus (1570-71)
- Siege of Ishiyama Honganji (1570-1580) - longest siege in Japanese history
- Sieges of Nagashima (1571, 1573, 1574)
- Siege of Haarlem (1572)
- Siege of Nagashino (1575)
- Siege of Pskov (1581-82)
- Siege of Ypres (1584)
- Siege of Ghent (1584)
- Siege of Bruges (1584)
- Siege of Antwerp (1584-1585)
- Siege of Odawara (1590)
- Siege of Kinsale (1601-1602)
- Siege of Ostend (1601-1604)
- Siege of Smolensk (1609-11) - 20 months
- Siege of Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra (1609-11) - 16 months Image:Petersburg seige.jpgSoldiers in the trenches of the siege at Petersburg
- Siege of Osaka (1614-1615)
- Siege of La Rochelle (1627-1628)
- Siege of Nuremberg (1632), Thirty Years' War
- Siege of Hara fortress (1637-1638)
- Siege of Azov (1637-42)
- Siege of Candia (Crete) (1648-1669) - possibly the longest siege in history
- Siege of Drogheda (1649)
- Siege of Clonmel (1650)
- Cromwell's Siege of Limerick City, Ireland (1651)
- Siege of Copenhagen (1658-59)
- Siege of Solovetsky Monastery (1668-1676)
- Siege of Groningen (1672)
- Siege of Maastricht (1673)
- Siege of Londonderry (1689)
- Williamite Siege of Limerick City, Ireland (1690-1691)
- Siege of Gibraltar (1704)
- Siege of Turin (1706)
- Siege of Lille (1708)
- Siege of Quebec City (1759)
- Siege of Boston (1775–1776)
- Siege of Yorktown (1781)
- Siege of Mantua (1796-1797)
- Siege of Seringapatam (1799)
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Modern
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Great Siege of Sevastopol by Franz Roubaud.
- Sieges of Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz (1812)
- Siege of the Alamo (1836)
- Siege of Sebastopol (1856)
- Siege of Veracruz (1847) - First U.S. amphibious landing.
- Siege of Cawnpore (1857) - The Indian Mutiny
- Siege of Lucknow (1857) - The Indian Mutiny
- Siege of Medina Fort (1857) - Toucouleurs besiege French for 97 days
- Siege of Vicksburg (1863) — Union army besieged a Confederate city in the American Civil War.
- Siege of Port Hudson (1863) — Union Army surrounded Confederate river stronghold for 48 days.
- Siege of Petersburg (1864–1865)
- Siege of Hakodate (1869)
- Siege of Paris and the Paris Commune (1870–1871)
- Siege of Khartoum (1884–1885)
- Siege of Mafeking (1899–1900)
- Siege of Port Arthur (1904-05)
- Siege of Antwerp (1914), World War I
- Siege of Maubeuge (1914), World War I
- Siege of Malta (1940) (1940–1943)World War II
- Siege of Leningrad (1941–1944) - also known as the 900-Day Siege, probably the most gruesome in history, World War II
- The Siege of Dien Bien Phu (1954) — Vietnamese Viet Minh forces besieged French forces, effecting a final defeat on France's colonial occupation
- Siege of Erenköy (1964) - Turkish Cypriots holding out against attacking Greek and Greek Cypriot forces.
- Siege of Sarajevo (1992–1996)
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Police sieges
- Sidney Street Siege (1911)
- Munich Olympic Massacre (1972)
- Norrmalmstorg robbery (1973) famous for the Stockholm syndrome
- Spaghetti House Siege (1975)
- Balcombe Street Siege (1975)
- MOVE Siege (1978)
- Iranian Embassy Siege (1980)
- Waco Siege (1993)
- Moscow Theatre Siege (2002)
- Beslan hostage crisis (2004)de:Liste von Belagerungen