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100 Great Sieges (Listed Alphabetically)
Preface
Jericho (1405 BC)
Historical Setting
The Siege
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Troy (1250 BC)
Historical Setting
The Siege
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Plataea (429-427 BC)
Historical Setting
The Siege
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Syracuse (415-413 BC)
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The Siege
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Veii (404-396 BC)
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The Siege
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Tyre (332 BC)
Historical Setting
The Siege
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Syracuse (213-212 BC)
Historical Setting
The Siege
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Carthage (149-146 BC)
Historical Setting
The Siege
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Numantia (134-133 BC)
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The Siege
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Alesia (52 BC)
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Jerusalem (70)
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The Siege
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Masada (73-74)
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The Siege
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Aquileia (452)
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The Siege
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Rome (537-38)
Historical Setting
The Siege
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Constantinople (717-18)
Historical Setting
The Siege
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Pavia (773-74)
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The Siege
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Paris (885-86)
Historical Setting
The Siege
Results
Jerusalem (1099)
Historical Setting
The Siege
Results
Acre (1189-91)
Historical Setting
The Siege
Results
Montsegur (1243-44)
Historical Setting
The Siege
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Baghdad (1258)
Historical Setting
The Siege
Results
Hsiang-yang (1268-73)
Historical Setting
The Siege
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Calais (1346-47)
Historical Setting
The Siege
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Nicopolis (1396)
Historical Setting
The Siege
Results
Orleans (1428-29)
Historical Setting
The Siege
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Constantinople (1453)
Historical Setting
The Siege
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Granada (1491)
Historical Setting
The Siege
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Tenochtitlan (1521)
Historical Setting
The Siege
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Rhodes (1522)
Historical Setting
The Siege
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Pavia (1524-25)
Historical Setting
The Siege
Results
Vienna (1529)
Historical Setting
The Siege
Results
Boulogne (1544)
Historical Setting
The Siege
Results
Malta (1565)
Historical Setting
The Siege
Results
Chitor Garh (1567-68)
Historical Setting
The Siege
Results
Famagusta (1571)
Historical Setting
wealth. Cyprus became part of the front line against Muslim expansion after Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. The Venetians were determined to hold their strategic and trade position as far to the east as possible. The city and its defensive reconstruction suffered from storms and earthquakes in 1546 and 1568. Further, the development of gunpowder weaponry had made the Norman masonry fortifications obsolete. The two earliest Venetian governors, Nicolo Foscarini and Nicolo Priuli, began the refortification of Famagusta. They cut a ditch around the city out of solid rock, then built an earthwork faced with masonry around the south and west sides of the city. A ravelin (large bastion) protected the ge
The Siege
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Antwerp (1584-85)
Historical Setting
The Siege
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Kinsale (1601-02)
Historical Setting
The Siege
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Osaka (1614-15)
Historical Setting
The Siege
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La Rochelle (1627-28)
Historical Setting
The Siege
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Magdeburg (1631)
Historical Setting
The Siege
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Maastricht (1673)
Historical Setting
The Siege
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Vienna (1683)
Historical Setting
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Londonderry (1689)
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The Siege
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St. Augustine (1702)
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The Siege
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Turin (1706)
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The Siege
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Lille (1708)
Historical Setting
The Siege
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Louisbourg (1745)
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The Siege
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Arcot (1751)
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The Siege
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Fort Niagara (1759)
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The Siege
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Quebec (1759)
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The Siege
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Havana (1762)
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The Siege
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Boston (1775-76)
Historical Setting
The Siege
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Quebec (1775-76)
Historical Setting
The Siege
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Fort Stanwix (1777)
Historical Setting
The Siege
Results
Gibraltar (1779-83)
Historical Setting
The Siege
Results
Pensacola (1781)
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The Siege
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Yorktown (1781)
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The Siege
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Toulon (1793)
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The Siege
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Genoa (1800)
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The Siege
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Badajoz (1812)
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Cuautla (1812)
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Cartagena (1815)
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The Siege
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Athens (Acropolis) (1826-27)
Historical Setting
The Siege
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The Alamo (1836)
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The Siege
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Rome (1849)
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The Siege
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Sevastopol (1854-55)
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Delhi (1857)
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Gaeta (1860-61)
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The Siege
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Puebla (1863)
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The Siege
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Vicksburg (1863)
Historical Setting
The Siege
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Petersburg (1864-65)
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Fort Fisher (1864-65)
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Humaita (1867-68)
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The Siege
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Paris (1870-71)
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The Siege
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Plevna (1877)
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The Siege
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Khartoum (1884-85)
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Chitral (1895)
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Manila (1898)
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Mafeking (1899-1900)
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Peking (1900)
Historical Setting
The Siege
Results
Port Arthur (1904-05)
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The Siege
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Liege (1914)
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The Siege
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Kut-al-Amara (1915-16)
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Madrid (1936-39)
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The Siege
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Bilbao (1937)
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The Siege
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Malta (1940-42)
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Tobruk (1941)
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Leningrad (1941-44)
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The Siege
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Sevastopol (1941-42)
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The Siege
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Singapore (1942)
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The Siege
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Stalingrad (1942-43)
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The Siege
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Monte Cassino (1944)
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The Siege
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Imphal (1944)
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The Siege
Results
Dien Bien Phu (1953-54)
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Quemoy (Kinmen) (1958-59)
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Khe Sanh (1968)
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Beirut (1982)
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Basra (1982-87)
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Sarajevo (1991-95)
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Grozny (1994-95)
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