- laid
siege to the Ottoman-held city of Taif, but the
Ottoman governor of Egypt,
Muhammad Ali Pasha,
successfully forced them
to raise the
siege. In 1814...
- the
approach of
a powerful Imperial army
to raise the
siege.
Under Charles's father,
Philip the Good,
Burgundy had
allied itself to the
cause of the...
-
employees of
a Lindt Chocolate Café in the APA
Building in
Martin Place, Sydney, Australia. The
Sydney siege led
to a 16-hour standoff,
after which a gunshot...
-
referred to as the
siege of
Little Washington.
After the
culmination of Burnside's
North Carolina Expedition little attention had been
given to North Carolina...
- force,
raising the
siege of the
Danubian fortress of
Nicopolis and
leading to the end of the
Second Bulgarian Empire. It is
often referred to as the Crusade...
- sent from
Damascus to Acre, for the
purpose of
forcing the
French to raise the
siege of Acre,
General Bonaparte sent out
detachments to track it down. General...
-
failed with
heavy casualties, but the
British failed to capture the fort and were
forced to raise the
siege. In the
early days of the War of 1812 (1812–1815)...
-
summoned to surrender but refused. The
siege began. The
besiegers tried to storm the walls, but failed. They then
resorted to starving Derry. They
raised the...
- The
siege of
Ankara was an
inconclusive siege of
Ankara by Timur. From Sivas, Timur's army
marched to Ankara in
twelve days. The lead
contingents of Timur's...
-
armies were
laying siege to Mantua at the
beginning of the year, and
a second attempt by
Austrians under Joseph Alvinczy to raise the
siege was
driven off...
