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6th century Totila razes the walls of Florence: 14th century illustration from Giovanni Villani 's Nuova Cronica The capture of Pavia by the Lombard King, Alboin : Siege of Pavia, 572 AD 7th century The Siege of Constantinople by the combined Sassanid, Avar, and Slavic forces in 626. A 1537 depiction on the murals of the Moldovița Monastery , Romania 8th century Greek fire , used by the Byzantine navy to destroy the Arab fleets at the 717–718 Siege of Constantinople. Illustration from a 12th-century illuminated manuscript (Madrid Skylitzes ) Carolingian -era siege warfare. Illustration of Psalm 60 from the Golden Psalter of St. Gallen , c. 890 . 9th century Count Odo defends Paris against the Normans (885-886) by Jean-Victor Schnetz . Oil on canvas (1834–1836) 10th century Fall of Antioch to the Byzantines under Michael Bourtzes on 28 October 969. Chronicle of John Skylitzes, 12th century illustration. Depiction of the siege of Chandax (960-961) from the history of John Skylitzes 11th century Siege of Valenciennes in 1006, illustration (1885). The Byzantine army of George Maniakes defends the towers of Edessa against an Arab counterattack (1031). Illustration from the chronicle of John Skylitzes Prince Bohemond of Taranto scales the walls of Antioch in 1098. 19th century engraving by Gustave Doré . Taking of Jerusalem by the Crusaders, 15 July 1099 by Émile Signol . Oil on canvas, 1850. 12th century Siege of Haifa (1100) – Crusades Siege of Le Mans (1100) Second siege of Arsuf (1101) – Crusades Siege of Caesarea (1101) – Crusades Siege of Latakia (1101–1103) Siege of Acre (1102) – Crusades Siege of Arundel (1102) Siege of Bridgnorth (1102) Siege of Jaffa (1102) – Crusades Siege of Tripoli (1102–1109) – Crusades Siege of Acre (1103) – Crusades Siege of Al-Rahba (1103) Siege of Acre (1104) – Crusades Siege of Takrit (sometime between 1105 and 1107) – Nizari–Seljuk conflicts Siege of Alamut (sometime between 1106 and 1109) – Nizari–Seljuk conflicts Siege of Shahdez (1107) – Nizari–Seljuk conflicts Siege of Nuremberg (1105) Siege of Cologne (1106) Siege of Apamea (1106) – Crusades - conflicts with the Assassins Siege of Apamea (September 1106) – Crusades - conflicts with the Assassins Siege of Malatya (1106) Siege of Castellum Arnaldi (1106) – Crusades Siege of Al-Rahba (1107) Siege of Hebron (1107) – Crusades Siege of Douai (1107) Siege of Dyrrhachium (1107–1108) – Byzantine–Norman wars Siege of Uclés (1108) – Reconquista Siege of Bratislava (1108) Siege of Sidon (1108) – Crusades Siege of Jableh (1109) – Crusades Siege of Nakło (1109) Siege of Głogów (1109) Siege of Baalbek (1110) Siege of Beirut (1110) – Crusades Siege of Novara (1110) Siege of Sidon (1110) – Norwegian Crusade Siege of Atarib (1110) – Crusades Siege of Le Puiset (1111) Siege of Vetula (1111) – Crusades Siege of Tyre (1111–1112) – Crusades Siege of Nicaea (1113) – Byzantine–Seljuq wars Siege of Hornburg Castle (1113) Siege of Mousson (1113) Siege of Bar (1113) Siege of Cologne (1114) Siege of Kafartab (1115) – Crusades Siege of Jaffa (1115) – Crusades Siege of Marqab (1116) – Crusades Siege of Alamut (1117–1118) – Nizari–Seljuk conflicts Siege of Lambsar (1117–1118) – Nizari–Seljuk conflicts Siege of Laodicea (1119) – Byzantine–Seljuq wars Siege of Sozopolis (1120) – Byzantine–Seljuq wars Siege of Jerash (1121) – Crusades Siege of Mainz (1121) Siege of Tbilisi (1121–1122) – Georgian–Seljuk wars Siege of Aschaffenburg Castle (1122) Siege of Faulquemont Castle (1122) Siege of Zardana (1122) – Crusades Siege of Balis (1122) – Crusades Siege of Kharput (1123) – Crusades Siege of Jaffa (1123) – Crusades Siege of Schulenburg Castle (1123) Siege of Manbij (1124) Siege of Azaz (1124) – Crusades Siege of Tyre (1124) – Crusades Siege of Aleppo (1124–1125) – Crusades Siege of Raffaniya (1126) – Crusades Siege of Al-Rahba (1127) Siege of Bayonne (1130–1131) Siege of De'an (1132) – Jin–Song Wars Siege of Kastamone (1132) Siege of Kastamone (1133) Siege of Savur (1134) – Crusades Siege of Gangra (1135) Siege of Montferrand (1137) – Crusades Siege of Anazarbos (1137) – Crusades Siege of Vahka (1137) – Crusades Siege of Antioch (1137) – Crusades Siege of Kafartab (1138) – Crusades Siege of Aleppo (1138) – Crusades Siege of Shaizar (1138) – Crusades Siege of Buza'a (1138) – Crusades Siege of Coria (1138) – Reconquista Siege of Baalbek (1139) Siege of Oreja (1139) – Reconquista Siege of Neocaesarea (1139–1140) Siege of Weinsberg (1140) Siege of Banias (1140) – Crusades Siege of Coria (1142) – Reconquista Siege of Lisbon (1142) - Reconquista Siege of Li Vaux Moise (1144) – Crusades Siege of Lisbon (1147) by Alfredo Roque Gameiro (1917) Siege of Naples in 1191 by the forces of Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI , Peter of Eboli , Liber ad honorem Augusti , Palermo, 1196 13th century The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople (1204) Eugène Delacroix . Oil on canvas, 1840 Crusaders attack the tower of Damietta (1218). A 1625 painting by Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen . Siege of Lincoln Castle (1217) – First Barons' War Siege of Toulouse (1217–18) – Albigensian Crusade Siege of Mount Tabor (1218) – Crusades Siege of Damietta (1218) – Fifth Crusade Siege of Marmande (1219) – Albigensian Crusade Siege of Toulouse (1219) – Albigensian Crusade Siege of Caesarea (1220) – Crusades Siege of Castelnaudary (1220–1221) – Albigensian Crusade Siege of Bamyan (1221) – Mongol conquest of Khwarezmia Siege of Nishapur (1221) – Mongol conquest of Khwarezmia Siege of Reval (1221) – Livonian Crusade Siege of Trebizond (1222–1223) – Byzantine–Seljuk Wars Siege of Reval (1223) – Livonian Crusade Siege of Fellin (1223) – Livonian Crusade Siege of Reval (1223) – Livonian Crusade Siege of Lohu (1223–1224) – Livonian Crusade Siege of La Rochelle (1224) Siege of Tartu (1224) – Livonian Crusade Siege of Jaén (1225) – Reconquista Siege of Avignon (1226) – Albigensian Crusade Siege of Toulouse (1226) – Albigensian Crusade Siege of Akhlat (1229) Siege of Jaén (1230) – Reconquista Siege of Beirut (1231–1232) Siege of Amida (1232) Siege of Kaifeng (1232–1233) – Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty Siege of Burriana (1233) – Reconquista Siege of Caizhou (1233–1234) – Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty 16th century illustration of the Mongol siege of Kiev in 1240. Siege of Constantinople (1235) – a joint Bulgarian-Nicaean siege on the capital of the Latin Empire. Siege of Bilär (1236) – Mongol invasion of Volga Bulgaria Siege of Córdoba (1236) – Reconquista Siege of Ryazan (1237) – Mongol invasion of Rus' Siege of Kolomna (1237–1238) – Mongol invasion of Rus' Siege of Moscow (1238) – Mongol invasion of Rus' Siege of Vladimir (1238) – Mongol invasion of Rus' Siege of Kozelsk (1238) – Mongol invasion of Rus' Siege of Brescia (1238) – Part of the wars between Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and the Lombard League Siege of Mt. Tebulosmta (1238-1250) - Mongol invasions of Durdzuketia Siege of Faenza (1239) – Part of the wars between Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and the Lombard League Siege of Jerusalem (1239) – Crusades Siege of Kiev (1240) – Mongol invasion of Rus' Siege of Esztergom (1242) – First Mongol invasion of Hungary , Citadel of Esztergom,Turoc, Nyitra, Győr, Pannonhalma, Székesfehérvár, Segesd, Varasd, Kemlék, Csázma, Zágráb, Trogir, Veszprém, Tihany, Moson, Sopron, Vasvár, Zala, Léka, Pozsony, Komárom, Fülek and Abaújvár besieged but successfully resisted Siege of Viterbo (1243) – Part of the wars between Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and the Lombard League Siege of Montségur (1243–1244) – Albigensian Crusade Siege of Jerusalem (1244) by the Khwarezmians Siege of Damascus (1245) Siege of Jaén (1245–46) – Reconquista Siege of Ascalon (1247) – Crusades Siege of Parma (1247–1248) – Part of the wars between Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and the Lombard League Siege of Seville (1247–1248) – Reconquista Siege of Aachen (1248) Siege of Homs (1248–1249) Siege of Damietta (1249) – Seventh Crusade Siege of Naples (1252) Siege of Cologne (1252) The Mongols besieged the "fortified mountain" of Gerdkuh for 17 years. The Mongol army besieging Baghdad in 1258. The Siege of Acre. The Hospitalier Master Mathieu de Clermont defending the walls in 1291 by Dominique Papety . 1840. 14th century Siege of Calais (1346–1347) 15th century Joan of Arc at the Siege of Orléans (1429) by Jules Eugène Lenepveu , painted 1886–1890 Fall of Constantinople (1453) Early modern
15th century Siege of Krujë in 1466. Woodcut by Jost Amman, from Philipp Lonicer, Chronicorum Turcicorum, Frankfurt 1578 The Surrender of Granada (1492) 16th century The Last Days of Tenochtitlan—Conquest of Mexico (1521) by William de Leftwich Dodge , 1899. Sack of Rome of 1527 by Johannes Lingelbach , 17th century. Battle of Tunis 1535 Attack on Goletta . Frans Hogenberg after Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen , 16th century. Ottoman depiction of the siege of Nice (1543) by Matrakçı Nasuh . Attack on Tripoli by the Ottomans (1551) The Siege of Calais, 9 January 1558, by François-Édouard Picot , 1838. The siege of Malta—Arrival of the Turkish fleet (1565) by Matteo Pérez de Alesio, 16th century Spanish troops storming the city of Maastricht, 1579 During the Cologne War (1583–89), Ferdinand of Bavaria successfully besieged the medieval fortress of Godesberg; during a month-long siege, his sappers dug tunnels under the feldspar of the mountain and laid gunpowder and a 1500-pound bomb. The result was a spectacular explosion that sent chunks of the ramparts, the walls, the gates, and drawbridges into the air. His 500 men still could not take the fortress until they scaled the interior latrine system and climbed the mountain to enter through a hole in the chapel roof. Henry IV of France before Amiens (1597), Anonymous Joseon and Ming dynasty soldiers assault the Japanese-built fortress at Ulsan (1598) Siege of Zaltbommel by the Spanish in 1599 by Hugo Grotius 17th century Siege of Ostend (1601-4) by Peter Snayers , oil on canvas. Monks successfully defended the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra against the Poles from September 1609 to January 1611. The Summer Battle of Osaka Castle (1614–15), 17th century Japanese painting The Surrender of Breda (1625) by Diego Velázquez . Cardinal Richelieu at the Siege of La Rochelle (1627–1628) by Henri-Paul Motte , 1881. The Capture of Rheinfelden (1634) by Vincenzo Carducci . Siege of Kraków, 8 October 1655. View from 1697 by the German historian Samuel Pufendorf. The assault of Copenhagen on the night between 10 and 11 February 1659 by Daniel Vertangen , 1659. Musketeers of the Guard entering the citadel of Valenciennes (1676-77). Reoccupation of Buda Castle in 1686. Gyula Benczúr (1896), oil on canvas Siege of Belgrade, 1688 by Adlerschwung Siege of Namur 1692, by Jean-Baptiste Martin , 1693. Siege of Namur (1695) by Jan van Huchtenburg . 18th century Tapestry depicting the 1702 victory of Archduke Joseph of Austria at Landau, woven for Leopold, Duke of Lorraine, between 1710 and 1718. Siege of Tönning (1700) – Great Northern War Siege of Riga (1700) – Great Northern War Siege of Narva (1700) – Great Northern War Siege of Kaiserswerth (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Saint Donas (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Castiglione (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Landau (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Borgoforte (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Guastalla (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Venlo (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Stevensweert (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Roermond (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Nöteborg (1702) – Great Northern War Siege of Liége (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Rheinberg (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Hulst (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Trarbach (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of St. Augustine (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Andernach (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Governolo (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Toruń in 1703. Siege of Neubourg (1703) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Kehl (1703) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Bonn (1703) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Thorn (1703) – Great Northern War Siege of Nago (1703) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Arco (1703) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Breisach (1703) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Huy (1703) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Limburg (1703) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Landau (1703) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Augsburg (1703) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Guadeloupe (1703) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Castello de Vide (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Wagingera (1704) Siege of Barcelona (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Susa (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Portalegre (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Vercelli (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession View of Gibraltar in 1704 Siege of Rain (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Narva (1704) – Great Northern War Siege of Dorpat (1704) – Great Northern War Siege of Villingen (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Susa (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Fort Isabella (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Gibraltar (1704) – eleventh siege of Gibraltar , by Sir George Rooke 's Anglo-Dutch fleet Siege of Ulm (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession Twelfth Siege of Gibraltar (1704–05) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Ivree (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Landau (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Verrua (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Trarbach (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Colonia del Sacramento (1704–1705) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of St. John's (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Valencia de Alcantara (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Albuquerque (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Huy (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Liège (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession Second siege of Huy (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Chivasso (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Mirandola (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Nice (1705–06) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Zoutleeuw (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Barcelona (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Hagenau (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Badajoz (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Zandvliet (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Diest (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession Prussian infantry breaks the French lines during the relief of Turin in 1706 Siege of San Mateo (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Tripoli (1705) - Tripolitanian-Tunisian War (1704-1709) Siege of Alcantara (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Barcelona (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Hagenau (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Turin (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Oostende (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Menin (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Alicante (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Dendermonde (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Ath (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Pavia (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Cuenca (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Pizzigetone (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Elche (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Cartagena (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Casale (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Milan (1707) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Villena (1707) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Xàtiva (1707) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Port Royal (1707) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Toulon (1707) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Gaeta (1707) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Pensacola (1707) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (1707) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Lille in 1708 Siege of Susa (1707) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Lérida (1707) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Morella (1707) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Oran (1707–1708) – Conflicts between Spain and Algiers Siege of Terki (1708) – Murat Kuchukov Movement Siege of Tortosa (1708) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Exilles (1708) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Lille (1708) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Fenestrelles (1708) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of San Felipe (1708) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Leffinghe (1708) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Denia (1708) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Saint Ghislain (1708) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Brussels (1708) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Alicante (1708–09) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Ghent (1708) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Veprik (1709) – Great Northern War Siege of Tournai (1709) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Mons (1709) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Viborg (1710) – Great Northern War Siege of Reval (1710) – Great Northern War Siege of Douai (1710) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Béthune (1710) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Aire (1710) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Saint Venant (1710) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Port Royal (1710) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Gerona (1710–1711) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Kassa (1711) – Rákóczi's War of Independence Siege of Aren fort (1711) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Bouchain (1711) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Venasque (1711) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Stralsund (1711–15) – Great Northern War Siege of Castel-Leon (1711) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Cardona (1711) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Le Quesnoy (1712) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Landrecies (1712) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Marchiennes (1712) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Douai (1712) – War of the Spanish Succession Depiction of the siege of Barcelona: The assault on the main body of the Place (1714) by Jacques Rigaud Austrian land and naval bombardment puts Belgrade in flames during the siege of 1717. British attack on Cartagena de Indias (1741) by Luis Fernández Gordillo. Oil on canvas, Naval Museum of Madrid Conquest and pillage of Bergen-op-Zoom by the French in 1747. Siege of Louisbourg (1758): British burning of the warship Prudent and the capturing of the Bienfaisant . The Capture of Havana, 1762: Storming of Morro Castle, 30 July by Dominic Serres , oil on canvas (1770–1775) The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782 Spanish grenadiers pour into Fort George (Pensacola, Florida) (1781) Siege of Belgrade in 1789 by the Habsburg army Siege of Lille (1792) by Louis Joseph Watteau The capitulation of Mantua on 2 February 1797, Hippolyte Lecomte , 1812 The Last Effort and Fall of Tipu Sultan (1799) by Henry Singleton Modern military sieges
19th century Siege of Gdańsk by French forces in 1807 Assault on the walls of Zaragoza by January Suchodolski The Siege of Burgos (1812) by François Joseph Heim . American troops landing in Veracruz (1847) during the Mexican–American War Siege of Kars, 1839 A barricade on Rue Voltaire, after its capture by the regular army during the Bloody Week of Commune of Paris (1871) American soldiers scale the walls of Beijing to relieve the Siege of the Legations, August 1900 20th century A casemate at Maubeuge, destroyed by German bombardment, 7 September 1914 Anti-aircraft fire near St. Isaac's Cathedral during the defense of Leningrad in 1941. Damaged buildings following the siege of Sarajevo , 1996 21st century Coalition airstrike targeting Islamic State positions during the Siege of Kobanî , October 2014 Burning buildings during the Siege of Mariupol , 2022 Police sieges
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