However, by the end of the Siege the fortress and its heroic response to the siege was now acquiring a sort of cult status amongst the population in Britain and no exchange however attractive, was likely to be acceptable.

During Childeric's siege and blockade of Paris in 464, the nun Geneviève ( later canonised as the city's Patron Saint ) pleaded with the Frankish King for the welfare of prisoners of war and met with a favourable response.

In response, Charles Emmanuel refused to allow his siege equipment to be used against Mantua.

Judas Maccabeus lays siege to the fortress and in response, the Seleucid general and regent to the young Seleucid king Antiochus V, Lysias, approaches Jerusalem and besieges Beth-zechariah, 25 kilometres from the city.

Originally the term referred to smaller guns that could accompany a field army on the march and when in combat could be moved about the battlefield in response to changing circumstances ( field artillery ), as to opposed guns installed in a fort ( garrison artillery / coastal artillery ), or to siege cannon or mortars which were too large to be moved quickly, and would be used only in a prolonged siege.

In response, Brian assembled the forces of the Province of Munster with the intention of laying siege to the Hiberno-Norse city of Dublin, which was ruled by Máel Morda's ally and cousin, Sigtrygg Silkbeard.

In November in response to the death of two Scots garrisoned on Amelia Island from an ambush by Spanish allied Indians the Darien settlers mobilized and together with forces from South Carolina captured the Spanish forts of Fort Picolata, Fort St. Francis de Pupo, Fort San Diego and Fort Mosa before attempting to lay siege to St. Augustine.

On May 8, 1775, he was promoted from private to Major General of the Rhode Island Army of Observation formed in response to the siege of Boston.

The Guardian's inactivity contrasts sharply with Robert Bruce's swift response to the siege of 1319.

In 1915, in response to German mining of British trenches under the then static siege conditions of World War I, the corps formed its own tunnelling companies.

In response, Samuel sent a large army under one of the most able Bulgarian nobles, Nestoritsa, to strike southwards and draw the attention of Basil away from the siege at Klyuch.

The group has also expressed concern about what they say is " the excessive Israeli response to the Al Aqsa Intifada and the prolonged closure and siege of villages and towns on the West Bank ".

Seeckt was prompt in his response, ordering the Reichswehr to crush Buschrucker's putsch by laying siege to the forts he had seized outside of Berlin.

Historians ( in particular Hugh Kennedy ) have argued that the concentric defence arose as a response to advances in siege technology in the crusader states from the 12th to the 13th century.

In response, Émile Jonassaint, declared a state of siege and accused the world of having " declared war on poor Haiti, which has harmed nobody.

In response to this upsurge, the government issued Institutional Act Number Five in December 1968, which suspended habeas corpus, increased the power of the executive by shutting down the other branches of government, and declared a nationwide state of siege.

Absent from this movie is the response by General George Patton whose Third Army relieved the siege of Bastogne.

In response, Sennacherib attacked Judah, laying siege on Jerusalem.

But he was ill-advised enough to support the rebellion of a son of Seljuk Sultan of Hamadan, who in response marched against Baghdad and forced the Caliph to take refuge in the eastern quarter, initiating the Seljuk siege of Baghdad 1157.

In response, Guan led his army to surround Duchang and laid siege to it.

In response, an alliance was forged by the British Secretary of State, Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, with France and the Netherlands ; when Philip did finally lay siege to Gibraltar, Austria declined to intervene against the powerful alliance, and Spain was left alone once again.

The exact date is unknown, with suggestions ranging from the 650s / 660s, in response to the Battle of the Masts, or following the first Arab siege of Constantinople in 672 – 678.

When the newly effective maneuverable siege cannon came into military strategy in the fifteenth century, the response from military engineers was to arrange for the walls to be embedded into ditches fronted by earthen slopes so that they could not be attacked by destructive direct fire and to have the walls topped by earthen banks that absorbed and largely dissipated the energy of plunging fire.

Ferguson issued a challenge to the rebel militias to lay down their arms or suffer the consequences ; in response, the Patriot militias led by James Johnston, William Campbell, John Sevier, Joseph McDowell and Isaac Shelby rallied for an attack on Ferguson.

In response, some residents of the co-ops rallied support for the families by throwing benefit concerts, establishing a protest " tent city " in the center of the UCSB campus, and staging marches throughout Santa Barbara to raise awareness of the plight these families face.

In response to the newly adopted Bow Trail Staging Report with its “ east-west downtown penetrator ” making community devastation almost a certainty, Chinatown residents, merchants and businessmen rallied together through the leadership of Calgary ’ s first Chinese-Canadian Alderman and then Member of the Legislature for Calgary McCall, George Holem.

They launched a major invasion of Gaul and northern Italy in 268, when the Romans were forced to denude much of their German frontier of troops in response to a massive invasion of the Goths from the east.

The initial response was to equip troops with cotton mouth pads for protection.

Strikes and other labor disturbances began to break out in response to these conditions, but most were quickly suppressed with the aid of government troops.

In response Macrinus dispatched his Praetorian prefect Ulpius Julianus to the region with a contingent of troops he considered strong enough to crush the rebellion.

This branch of the field crystallized during World War I, in response to the need to rapidly assign new troops to duty stations.

In response to the 2001 Second Intifada and suicide bombings, Jericho was re-occupied by Israeli troops.

Within the government, it was agreed that Japan would try to secure its position in China, defuse the conflict with the Soviet Union, move troops into Indochina, and prepare for a military response from Britain and possibly the United States.

* 1965 – Vietnam War: In response to U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's call for " more flags " in Vietnam, Philippines President Elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam.

During the American Civil War, Rhode Island was the first Union state to send troops in response to President Lincoln's request for help from the states.

On 6 July 2003, in response to a proposal to send 300 police and 2, 000 troops from Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Papua New Guinea to Guadalcanal, warlord Harold Keke announced a ceasefire by faxing a signed copy of the announcement to the Solomons Prime Minister, Allan Kemakeza.

* 1945 – Cold War: United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of Korea in response to Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier.

The German forces formed similar troops of their own in response to this.

In response to Sherman's assault Bragg withdrew Confederate troops on the main ridge to reinforce the Confederate right flank.

The emperor mobilized his active forces in response to the French attacks, and began the process of calling up troops from the states of the empire, establishing a defensive line at Ettlingen, near Karlsruhe.

* November 28 – Vietnam War: In response to U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's call for " more flags " in Vietnam, Philippines President-elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam.

In response, Athens sends more troops and ships under the command of Hipponicus.

In response to a proposal first made on July 22 by the commander of his German troops, Baron Riedesel, Burgoyne sent a detachment of about 800 troops under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Baum from Fort Miller on a foraging mission to acquire horses for the German dragoons, draft animals to assist in moving the army, and to harass the enemy.

Turkish garrisons were massacred, in response to which the irregular Turkish troops began to massacre.

However, when Napoleon advanced as far as Thuringia after September 1806 in response to the Berlin Ultimatum, which demanded the withdrawal of French troops from the left bank of the Rhine, Frederick Augustus joined with Prussia.

In response to largely peaceful mass demonstrations and crippling general strikes, Ratsiraka replaced his prime minister in August 1991 but suffered an irreparable setback soon thereafter when his troops fired on peaceful demonstrators marching on Iavoloha, the suburban presidential palace, killing more than 30.

Chiang Kai-shek threatened the French with war in response to manoeuvering by the French and Ho Chi Minh against each other, forcing them to come to a peace agreement, and in February 1946 he also forced the French to surrender all of their concessions in China and renounce their extraterritorial privileges in exchange for withdrawing from northern Indochina and allowing French troops to reoccupy the region starting in March 1946.

In 1866, French naval troops attacked Korea in response to the execution of French missionaries there.