Yikuang even wrote letters to foreigners, inviting them to take shelter in the Zongli Yamen during the Siege of the International Legations, when Prince Duan's men besieged the Beijing Legation Quarter.

The events were depicted directly in the 1960 film The Siege of Sidney Street.

He also appears as a character in Tom Harper's " Siege of Heaven " and is depicted as a violent psychopath.

Honnō-ji is depicted in the games Onimusha 3: Demon Siege, Samurai Warriors, and Sengoku Basara Series and in episode 10 of the animated TV series Sengoku Otome.

The First Siege of Boulogne was depicted in the 4th season of the television series The Tudors.

McGill's role in the campaign against segregation is depicted Michael Braz's opera, A Scholar Under Siege, composed for the centenary of Georgia Southern University and premiered in 2007.

Irene Bedard's first role was as Mary Crow Dog in the television production Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee, which depicted the 1970s standoff between police and Native Americans at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.

* 1793 – French Revolutionary Wars: the city of Toulon revolts against the French Republic and admits the British and Spanish fleets to seize its port, leading to the Siege of Toulon by French Revolutionary forces.

* 1863 – American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg – ships led by Union Admiral David Dixon Porter move through heavy Confederate artillery fire on approach to Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Thus, Afonso continued to distinguish himself by his exploits against the Moors, from whom he wrested Santarém ( see Conquest of Santarém ) and Lisbon in 1147 ( see Siege of Lisbon ).

The walls of Amida, built by Constantius II before the Siege of Amida of 359

In 1799, British ships harassed Bonaparte's army as it marched east and north through Palestine, and played a crucial part in Bonaparte's defeat at the Siege of Acre, when the barges carrying the siege train were captured and the French storming parties were bombarded by British ships anchored offshore.

The name " Branch Davidian " is most widely known for the Waco Siege of 1993 on their property ( known as the Mount Carmel Center ) near Waco, Texas, by the ATF, FBI, and Texas National Guard, which resulted in the deaths of their leader, David Koresh, as well as 82 other Branch Davidians and four ATF agents.

A similar story is reported by Flavius Josephus during the siege of Jerusalem by Rome in 70 AD ( see Mary of Bethezuba ), and the population of Numantia during the Roman Siege of Numantia in the 2nd century BC was reduced to cannibalism and suicide.

For example, during the 872-day Siege of Leningrad, reports of cannibalism began to appear in the winter of 1941 – 1942, after all birds, rats and pets were eaten by survivors.

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For example, in the 1543 Siege of Nice the Ottoman forces led by Barbarossa conquered and pillaged the town itself and took many captives-but the city castle held out, due to which the townspeople were accounted the victors.

However, Eugene's military career suffered a temporary setback in 1688 when, on 6 September, the Prince suffered a severe wound to his knee by a musket ball during the Siege of Belgrade.

During the Siege of Paris in 1871, the North German Confederation, supported by its allies from southern Germany, formed the German Empire with the proclamation of the Prussian king Wilhelm I as German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, to the humiliation of the French, who ceased to resist only days later.

* 1593 – Japanese invasion of Korea: Approximately 3, 000 Joseon defenders led by general Kwon Yul successfully repel more than 30, 000 Japanese forces in the Siege of Haengju.

Despite those efforts, he failed to gain control over Hungary and Bohemia in the Bohemian War ( 1468-1478 ) and was even defeated in the Austrian-Hungarian War ( 1477-1488 ) by the Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus in 1485, who managed to maintain residence in Vienna until his death five years later ( see Siege of Vienna ( 1485 )).

It attempted to lift the Siege of Paris by breaking through the German lines.

* 1316-Gibraltar was unsuccessfully besieged by the Nasrid caid Yahya ( Second Siege of Gibraltar ).

* 1333 June – A Marinid army, led by Abd al-Malik, the son of Abul Hassan, the Marinid sultan, recovered Gibraltar, after a five-month siege ( Third Siege of Gibraltar ).

Alfonso of Castile, half-brother of Henry IV and puppet pretender handled by the nobility, granted him the Lordship of Gibraltar ( Ninth Siege of Gibraltar ).

Despite some military attempts by the Spanish to retake it in the 18th century, most notably in the Great Siege of 1779 – 1783, the Rock has remained under British control ever since.

* 1727 February – June – Second of the sieges by Spain tried to recapture Gibraltar ( Thirteenth Siege of Gibraltar ).

: The successful resistance in the Great Siege is attributed to several factors: the improvement in fortifications by Colonel ( later Mayor General Sir ) William Green in 1769 ; the British naval supremacy, which translated into support of the Navy ; the competent command by General George Augustus Elliot ; and an appropriately sized garrison.

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.

Culverin with the arms of Philippe Villiers de L ' Isle-Adam, Siege of Rhodes ( 1522 ).

For example, during the Siege of Ascalon in 1153, Grand Master Bernard de Tremelay led a group of 40 Templars through a breach in the city walls.

Grand Master Gérard de Ridefort was beheaded by Saladin in 1189 at the Siege of Acre.

Lord Peter Wimsey's ( fictional ) ancestry begins with the 12th-century knight Gerald de Wimsey, who went with King Richard The Lion Heart on the Third Crusade and took part in the Siege of Acre.

* 1189 – Gerard de Ridefort, grandmaster of the Knights Templar since 1184, is killed in the Siege of Acre.

The celebrated march of 1781 to Yorktown, Virginia that ended with the defeat of the British at the Siege of Yorktown and the Battle of the Chesapeake began in Newport, Rhode Island under the joint command of General George Washington who led American troops and the Comte de Rochambeau who led French soldiers sent by King Louis XVI.

In 1781, the combined action of Continental and French land and naval forces trapped the British army on the Virginia Peninsula, where troops under George Washington and Comte de Rochambeau defeated British General Cornwallis in the Siege of Yorktown.

* June 29 – Seven Years ' War – Siege of Fort St Philip at Port Mahon: The British garrison in Minorca surrenders to the French after two months ' siege by Armand de Vignerot du Plessis.

* August 29 – Thirty Years ' War: While on their way to relieve the Siege of Bergen-op-Zoom in the Netherlands, the army of Mansfeld and Christian of Brunswick is blocked by a Spanish army led by Gonzalo de Córdoba.

* August 16 – Bernard de Tremelay, fourth Grand Master of the Knights Templar ( at the Siege of Ascalon )

At the joint request of the German authorities and the Strasbourg Comité de Secours, she superintended the supplying of work to the poor of Strasbourg in 1871, after the Siege of Paris, and in 1872 had charge of the public distribution of supplies to the destitute people of Paris.

The American period includes the Siege of Pueblo de Taos by U. S. forces in 1847.

Valencia capitulated to Aragonese rule on 28 September 1238 following an extensive campaign which included the Siege of Burriana and the decisive Battle of the Puig where the Aragonese commander, Bernardo Guillermo de Entenza who was also the king's cousin, died from wounds received in action.

* Elizabeth Percy ( c. 1395 – 26 October 1436 ), who married firstly John Clifford, 7th Baron de Clifford, slain at the Siege of Meaux on 13 March 1422, by whom she had issue, and secondly Ralph Neville, 2nd Earl of Westmorland ( d. 3 November 1484 ), by whom she had a son, Sir John Neville.

The name of the district comes from the statue of La Défense de Paris which commemorates the Siege of Paris ( 1870-1871 ) | Parisian resistance during the Franco-Prussian War.

Letter of Cardinal Richelieu to Claude de Razilly asking him to do everything in his power to relieve Ré Island in the Siege of Saint-Martin-de-Ré ( 1627 ) | Siege of Saint-Martin-de-Ré, July 1627.

Maurice ( d. 1361 ) was the son and heir of Maurice de Berkeley ( d. 1347 at the Siege of Calais ), who had acquired the manor of Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire, in 1337, the second son of Maurice de Berkeley, 2nd Baron Berkeley ( 1271 – 1326 ).

Detail of Claude Lorrain: File: Siege of La Rochelle by Claude Lorrain Le Louvre. jpg | Le siège de La Rochelle.

* First Siege of Gibraltar ( 1309 ) – Siege of Gibraltar, by Juan Alfonso de Guzman el Bueno in the Reconquista

At the Siege of Rouen ( May – October 1562 ), the crown regained the city, but Antoine de Navarre died of his wounds.

In February 1563, at the Siege of Orléans, Francis, Duke of Guise was shot and killed by the Huguenot Jean de Poltrot de Méré.