At the same time, after initial setbacks, Grant laid siege to Vicksburg and the Union navy attained some success in Charleston harbor.

The Visigothic leader thereupon laid siege upon Rome in 408.

At the very outset, he had to meet the formidable attack of the Normans ( led by Robert Guiscard and his son Bohemund ), who took Dyrrhachium and Corfu, and laid siege to Larissa in Thessaly ( see Battle of Dyrrhachium ).

In the autumn of 1234, Prince Danylo laid siege to the capital of Andrew's youngest son who died during the siege.

In 1011 the Danes again raided England, and from 8 – 29 September they laid siege to Canterbury.

The Abbasid army was fast on his heels, and laid siege to Carmona for approximately two months.

In 1394, Bayezid laid siege to Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire.

Crassus laid siege to fort, but had to enlist the assistance of Rholes, the Getan petty king to dislodge them, for which service Rholes was granted the title of socius et amicus populi Romani (" ally and friend of the Roman people ").

Sailing on through the Bosporus, the expedition laid siege to Thessalonica in Macedonia.

Naboplassar of Babylon joined forces with Cyaxares, king of the Medes, and laid siege for three months.

In the early morning of December 10, 1949, Communist troops laid siege to Chengdu, the last KMT controlled city in mainland China, where Chiang Kai-shek and his son Chiang Ching-kuo directed the defense at the Chengdu Central Military Academy.

The War of the Austrian Succession saw Britain and France in conflict with each other, and in 1745 several warships and a small contingent of troops were sent from Boston, first to the Nova Scotian fishing port of Canso, and on to Louisbourg where they laid siege to the fortress until the French surrendered and were evacuated.

In 1758, the fortress of Louisbourg was laid siege for a second time within 15 years, this time by more than 27, 000 British soldiers and sailors with over 150 warships.

Dissatisfaction with this state of affairs continued to loom over Nerva's reign, and ultimately erupted into a crisis in October 97, when members of the Praetorian guard, led by Casperius Aelianus, laid siege to the Imperial Palace and took Nerva hostage.

Maguire then laid siege to it and defeated a relieving force at the Battle of the Ford of the Bicuits at Drumane Bridge.

* 1309-While the King Ferdinand IV of Castile laid siege on Algeciras, Alonso Pérez de Guzmán ( known to the Spanish records as Guzmán el Bueno ) was sent to capture the town.

Next, it laid siege to Gibraltar ( Sixth Siege of Gibraltar ) and recovered the city for the kingdom of Granada.

Five years later they laid siege to Chersonesos Taurica ; their cavalry kept roaming the steppes of Crimea until 590.

Then Gallienus laid siege to the city, but he was murdered during the siege.

D ' Iberville's depleted French force captured York Factory by a ruse ; they laid siege to the fort while pretending to be a much larger army, the French held all of the outposts except Fort Albany until 1713.

Hannibal perceived this as a breach of the treaty signed with Hasdrubal and so he laid siege to the city, which fell after eight months.

Consequently a siege was laid, which lasted for fourteen months, and the fort was taken in 1620.

The English had laid siege to Orléans, one of the few remaining loyal French cities and a strategic position along the Loire River, which made it the last obstacle to an assault on the remainder of the French heartland.

The very citadel of spoils politics, the hitherto impregnable fortress that had existed unshaken since it was erected on the foundation laid by Andrew Jackson, was tottering to its fall under the assaults of this audacious and irrepressible young man .... Whatever may have been the feelings of the ( fellow Republican party ) President ( Harrison ) — and there is little doubt that he had no idea when he appointed Roosevelt that he would prove to be so veritable a bull in a china shop — he refused to remove him and stood by him firmly till the end of his term.

He first invaded Norway in 1716 with a combined force of 7, 000 men, occupied the capital Christiania, ( modern Oslo ), and laid siege to the Akershus fortress.

The main force consisting of 40, 000 men laid siege to the strong fortress of Fredriksten, overlooking the border town of Fredrikshald.

Kongsvinger fortress was founded in 1669, and a star-shaped plan was laid out for the fortress.

Today, Øvrebyen, the old uptown area around the fortress is dominated by wooden buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries, laid out in the typical right angle square plan-by architect Cicignon-popular in this period.

In January 1809, a British expedition invaded Martinique and laid siege to the fortress at Fort-de-France.

After taking the fortress of Ardahan, he was repulsed by Ahmed Muhtar Pasha at Zevin, but subsequently defeated his opponent at Ajaria, took Kars by storm, and laid siege to Erzerum.

In 1071, King Solomon and the dukes led a campaign against the Byzantine Empire and laid siege to the fortress of Belgrade.

Coloman managed to rout both of the armies and he denied the entrance of the new armies led by Emicho of Leiningen and Guillaume de Melun, but the Crusaders laid siege to the fortress of Moson defended by Coloman.

In the second half of 1099, Coloman led his armies against Prince Vasilko of Terebovl and laid siege to the fortress of Peremysl, but he was defeated by the Cuman allies of the prince.

The fortress was made of bricks and cement with no guarding station, but fighting ones, while at the opening in the wall laid the cannons preventing the enemies coming through the mouth of the river.

When in the course of 1716, Charles XII invaded Norway and laid siege to the fortress of Fredrikshald, Tordenskiold compelled him to raise the siege and retire to Sweden.

Polish – Lithuanian troops crossed the Russian borders and laid siege to the fortress of Smolensk.

The palmetto tree was added in 1861, also a reference to Moultrie's defense of Sullivan Island ; the fortress he'd constructed had survived largely because the palmetto trees, laid over sand walls, were able to withstand British cannons.

A second naval battle occurred 30 years later in the Siege of Diu in 1538 when the Turks laid siege with 54 ships to the fortress which was built by the Portuguese in 1535, but then after suffering terrible defeats they lifted the siege.

Ten days later, Kamensky laid siege to another strong fortress, Shumla.

On 30 April 1661, General Zheng Chenggong (" Koxinga ") of Ming China ( 1368-1644 ) laid siege to the fortress ( defended by 2, 000 Dutch soldiers ) with 400 warships and 25, 000 men.

The Earl of Douglas, outraged with this opposition to his plot, laid siege to Raeberry Castle ( MacLellan's Castle ) and captured Sir Patrick Maclellan forcibly removing him to the fortress of Threave Castle, where Maclellan was held a prisoner.

Taking advantage of bitter rivalry between Lysias and the recently deceased emperor's regent, Philip, Judas laid siege to the fortress in 162 BC.

In 1735, the Russian government built a fortress in Kizlyar and laid foundations for the Caucasus fortified borderline.

On February 5, 1813 the Russian army of 36, 000 soldiers arrived to the fortress and laid siege to it.