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** After a 2-month siege, the French army of Bazaine takes Puebla, Mexico.
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** Serb troops take Vukovar after an 87-day siege, and commit the worst massacre in Croatian history.
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** Ecumenical Patriarch Athanasius II of Constantinople ( all killed in, or shortly after, the siege of Constantinople )
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** December 12 – after a month siege, the crusaders take Maarat and massacre part of the population.
** April 19 – Siege of Massilia: Caesar commences a siege at Massilia against the Pompeian Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus.
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** An army led by Geoffrey Boucicaut occupies Avignon and starts a 5-year siege of the papal palace.
** 1270 – Before August – King Louis IX of France launches the Eighth Crusade in an attempt to recapture the crusader states from the Mamluk sultan Baibars ; the opening engagement is a siege of Tunis.
** 1270 – October 30 – The siege of Tunis and the Eighth Crusade end by an agreement between Charles I of Sicily ( Louis IX's brother ) and the sultan of Tunis.
** June 3 – the Norman crusaders join the rest of the army during the siege of Nicaea.
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