The siege progressed slowly, and the Egyptian sultan al-Adil died in August 1218, supposedly of shock after the crusaders managed to capture one of Damietta's towers.

If sufficiently desperate as the siege progressed, defenders and civilians might have been reduced to eating anything vaguely edible-horses, family pets, the leather from shoes, and even each other.

However, as the war progressed and Royalist fortunes waned, Ashby — already the target of action in 1644 — was subject to a prolonged siege between September 1645 and its surrender in March 1646.

However, as the war progressed and Royalist fortunes waned, Ashby — already the target of action in 1644 — was subject to a prolonged siege between September 1645 and its surrender in March 1646.

* 1836 – Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo – After a thirteen day siege by an army of 3, 000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.

After a siege lasting 13 days, Autry was killed with the rest of the Alamo garrison after the Mexican army stormed it on March 6, 1836.

In the Texas Revolution, Andrew Briscoe's Liberty Volunteers, organized in 1835, fought at the siege of Bexar and the battle of Concepción, and it was to Liberty in February 1836 that one of William B. Travis's letters requesting reinforcements at the Alamo was delivered by Joseph Dunman.

The siege ended on March 6, when the Mexican army attacked the Alamo ; by the end of the Battle of the Alamo all or almost all of the defenders were killed.

After a 56-day siege of the town and Alamo mission, on December 9, Cos surrendered the town of San Antonio and weapons to the Texians then proceeded to leave Texas.

He first entered San Antonio de Béxar and, after a 13-day siege, defeated and killed the Texan force on March 6, 1836 at the Alamo.

By the second week of February, Mexican regulars were scouting the Alamo and by February 22 began laying siege to the fort.

On March 6, 1836, following a thirteen-day siege, Santa Anna ordered the assault on the Alamo at the predawn hours.

On February 24, 1836, during Santa Anna's siege of the Alamo, Travis wrote a letter addressed " To the People of Texas and All Americans in the World ":

Santa Anna and his army began a siege of the Alamo on February 24.

Although Badgett left for the convention, Maverick remained at the siege of the Alamo until March 2, the same day the other delegates were signing the Texas Declaration of Independence.

During the Mexican siege of the Alamo in March 1836, General Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana displayed a plain red flag ( approx.

Santa Anna and his advance force arrived in San Antonio de Bexar on February 23 and immediately initiated a siege of the Texas forces garrisoned at the Alamo.

After a thirteen-day siege, Santa Anna's army defeated the small group of Texans at the Battle of the Alamo and continued east.

Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna launched an assault on the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Béxar ( modern-day San Antonio, Texas, USA ).

During the first week of the siege more than 200 cannonballs landed in the Alamo plaza.

Most of the Texians in the Alamo believed that Sesma had been leading the Mexican forces during the siege, and they mistakenly attributed the celebration to the arrival of Santa Anna.

During the siege of the Alamo in February 1836 he attempted a march of 100 miles to relieve the Texan forces at the Alamo but due to poor preparation for the journey and word that general Urrea's Mexican forces were approaching Goliad, he turned back.

Although serving at the Alamo during the thirteen day siege, he was dispatched as a courier and was not present to participate in the closing battle of the Alamo.

A siege may lead to a last stand by the defenders ( see for example the Battle of the Alamo ).

Beatty was strongly commended by Captain E. H. Bayley, who had been his commander during the siege, and by the commander in chief.

In early 1913 Victoriano Huerta, the commander of the armed forces conspired with Félix Díaz ( Porfirio Díaz's nephew ), Bernardo Reyes, and US Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson against Madero, which culminated in a ten-day siege of La Ciudadela known as La decena tragica ( the Tragic Ten Days ).

There he saved the city of Segesta, which had been under siege from the Carthaginian infantry commander Hamilcar.

* 1704 1 August ( NS ): ( 21 July ( OS )) – During the War of the Spanish Succession, and when returning from a failed expedition to Barcelona, an Anglo-Dutch fleet, under the command of Sir George Rooke, chief commander of the Alliance Navy, began a new siege ( the eleventh siege of the town ).

Despite defeat at nearby Somorrostro, Republic commander Marshal Francisco Serrano, supported by Generals Manuel de la Concha and Arsenio Martínez Campos, brilliantly breaks the siege and Concha then marches on Estella.

* February 24-February 25 – First Battle of Somorrostro ( Third Carlist War ): Determined to raise the siege of Bilbao by the Pretender Don Carlos VII, Republican commander Marshal Francisco Serrano sent General Domingo Moriones with a relief force of 14, 000 men.

* March 25 – 27 – Second Battle of Somorrostro ( Third Carlist War ): In a renewed attempt to raise the siege of Bilbao by Don Carlos VII, Republican commander Marshal Francisco Serrano himself arrived with 27, 000 men and 70 cannon.

The castle, however, was under a constant state of siege, and the English commander, Sir Phillip de Mowbray, had advised Edward that he would surrender the castle to the Scots unless Edward arrived by 24 June 1314, to relieve the siege.

Suspecting that the castle's supplies may be running low, the siege commander Matsudaira Nobutsuna ordered a raid on the castle's provisions.

A Revolutionary Army laid siege to the British positions for four months ( see the Siege of Toulon ), and finally, thanks to the enterprise of the young commander of artillery, Napoleon Bonaparte, defeated the British and drove them out in December 1793.

After sending his artillery commander, Porter Alexander, to reconnoiter the Union-occupied town, he devised a plan to shift most of the Army of Tennessee away from the siege, setting up logistical support in Rome, Georgia, go after Bridgeport to take the railhead, possibly catching Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker and arriving Union troops from the Eastern Theater in a disadvantageous position.

As consul he will be the commander of the final siege and destruction of Carthage and will be the leader of the senators opposed to the Gracchi ( d. 129 BC )

As consul he will be the commander of the final siege and destruction of Carthage and will be the leader of the senators opposed to the Gracchi ( d. 129 BC )

The new siege commander appointed by Bedford in mid-November, William de la Pole ( Earl of Suffolk ) resolved on surrounding the city and starving it into submission.

Because the Han Chinese commander Guo Kan fought with the Mongols under Hulegu in the Middle East, Kublai had heard of siege engines of great effectiveness.

The siege was broken off due to the start of the tropical rainy season, after weeks of intense fighting in which the British landing party was successfully repelled by the Spanish and native forces led by commander General Blas de Lezo y Olavarrieta ( 1689 – 1741, death in aftermath of the Cartagena battle ), a Basque from the Gipuzkoa lands of Spain.

* After suffering a defeat in which the Athenian commander Lamachus is killed, Demosthenes suggests that they immediately give up the siege of Syracuse and return to Athens, where they are needed to defend against a Spartan invasion of Attica.

Ardaburius defeated the Persian commander Narseh and proceeded to plunder the province of Arzanene and lay siege to Nisibis.

The town also successfully withstood a siege in 1547 from the English commander Sir Thomas Carleton, but after the surrounding countryside had been overrun was compelled to surrender.

As a commander Marlborough preferred battle over slow moving siege warfare.

It resisted a siege of thirteen months and a terrible bombardment, until at last the commander, Marco Antonio Bragadin was flayed alive, his lieutenant Tiepolo was hanged.