In 1299 he was present at the king's wedding to Margaret of France at Canterbury, and in 1300 he took part in the Siege of Caerlaverock.

After the Siege of Louisbourg ( 1745 ) during King George's War, the New Englanders also captured Île Saint-Jean ( Prince Edward Island ).

On April 22, 1760, Contoocook Plantation was incorporated as a town by Governor Benning Wentworth, who named it for Edward Boscawen, the British admiral who distinguished himself at the 1758 Siege of Louisbourg.

His maternal grandfather, James Jarché, was a famous Fleet Street photographer notable for the first pictures of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson and also for his pictures of Louis Blériot ( 1909 ) and the Siege of Sidney Street.

The British defeated France in Acadia in the Battle of Fort Beausejour ( 1755 ) and then Île Royale ( Cape Breton Island ) ( which also administered Île Saint-Jean ( Prince Edward Island ) with the Siege of Louisbourg ( 1758 ).

He saved Mahé, relieved General Dupleix at Pondicherry, defeated Edward Peyton, and in 1746 participated in the Siege of Madras.

Hazen's 2nd Canadian Regiment served in the Philadelphia campaign and also at the Siege of Yorktown, and included Edward Antill, a New Yorker living in Quebec City ( who actually led the regiment at Yorktown as Hazen had been promoted to brigadier general ), Clément Gosselin, Germain Dionne, and many others.

He was present at the Siege of Stirling in 1304, serving under Edward, the Prince of Wales.

Thomas Beauchamp fought in all the French wars of King Edward III: commanded at the Battle of Crecy: was guardian of the sixteen-year-old Black Prince: fought at Poitiers in 1356 and at the Siege of Calais ( 1346 ).

He also assisted Philip with troops to lift Edward III of England's Siege of Tournai ( 1340 ) in the opening phase of the Hundred Years ' War.

Also, General Edward Hand, the General who accepted the sword of surrender from Charles Cornwallis at the Siege of Yorktown, is shown seated and holding his hat within the vessel.

The next year, he was second in command under Admiral Edward Boscawen at the successful Siege of Louisbourg.

O ' Neill lists as his favourite books: Ulysses, by James Joyce, The Last of the Wine, by Mary Renault, Hadrian the Seventh, by Frederick Rolfe ( Frederick Baron Corvo ), The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon, The Leopard, by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Siege of Krishnapur, by J. G. Farrell, One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez, The Third Policeman, by Flann O ' Brien, The Swimming Pool Library, by Alan Hollinghurst, and The Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt.

The Siege is a 1998 American thriller film directed by Edward Zwick.

After Edward Rydz-Śmigły evacuated his staff from Warsaw, Okulicki remained in the Polish capital and served in various posts during the Siege of Warsaw.

After the Siege of Calais of 1346, King Edward III expelled the inhabitants of that city because, in his words, " I wolde repeople agayne the towne with pure Englysshmen ".

* 1916 – World War I: The British 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.

King Afonso I at the Siege of Lisbon.

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.

During the Siege of Paris on 18 January 1871, King Wilhelm I of Prussia was proclaimed German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles.

During the Siege of Paris, the German princes assembled in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles and proclaimed the Prussian King Wilhelm I as the " German Emperor " on 18 January 1871.

* 1914 – World War I: Siege of Antwerp – Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops.

The Siege of Plevna during the Russo-Turkish War ( 1877 – 1878 ) proved that hastily-constructed field defences could resist attacks prepared without proper resources, and were a portent of the trench warfare of World War I.

* 1529 – The Siege of Vienna begins when Suleiman I attacks the city.

* 1914 – World War I: The Siege of Przemyśl ( present-day Poland ) begins.

* April 15 – WWII: King George VI awards the George Cross to Malta to mark the Siege of Malta, saying, " To honour her brave people I award the George Cross to the Island Fortress of Malta, to bear witness to a heroism and a devotion that will long be famous in history ( from January 1 to July 24, there is only one 24-hour period during which no bombs fall on this tiny island ).

* July 1 – October 25 – with the support of English and Flemish Crusaders, Afonso I of Portugal besieges and conquers Lisbon ( Siege of Lisbon ).

Josephus describes multiple tortures and positions of crucifixion during the Siege of Jerusalem as Titus crucified the rebels ; and Seneca the Younger recounts: " I see crosses there, not just of one kind but made in many different ways: some have their victims with head down to the ground ; some impale their private parts ; others stretch out their arms on the gibbet.

In 1543, Nice was attacked by the united Franco-Ottoman forces of Francis I and Barbarossa Hayreddin Pasha, in the Siege of Nice ; and, though the inhabitants repulsed the assault which succeeded the terrible bombardment, they were ultimately compelled to surrender, and Barbarossa was allowed to pillage the city and to carry off 2, 500 captives.

* July 28 – Thankmar, half-brother of Otto I ( during Siege of Eresburg ) ( b. c. 908 )

His career continued to rise steadily with co-starring roles in standard big-budget studio films like Under Siege 2 ( 1995 ) and G. I.

In 427, Aëtius arrived in southern Gaul with an army of roughly 40, 000 to find Arelate, an important city in Septimania near the mouth of the Rhone, under siege from the Visigoths led by their king Theodoric I. Aëtius defeated Theodoric, lifted the Siege of Arelate, and drove the Visigoths back to their holdings in Aquitania.

During the Siege of Paris on 18 January 1871, King Wilhelm I of Prussia was proclaimed German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles.

* The Siege of Rhodes, Part I, tragicomedy ( performed September 1656 ; printed 1656 )

* September-performance of The Siege of Rhodes, Part I by Sir William Davenant, the " first English opera "

It was built between 1393 and 1394 by the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I " The Thunderbolt " as part of his preparations for the Second Ottoman Siege of Constantinople, which took place in 1395.

Later that year, Bayard was among the French forces under Jacques de La Palice sent to join their German ally, the Emperor Maximilian I at the Siege of Padua.

* Stephen I of Sancerre 1133 – 1191, Count of Sancerre and Crusader, died at the Siege of Acre

A teaser for Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace was attached to the films The Siege and A Bug's Life, and it was reported that many people had paid for admission to the film just to watch the trailer, and had walked out after the trailer had been screened.

The Siege of Antwerp was an engagement between the German and the Belgian armies during World War I.

The same month that Alastor was published, Murray sold twenty thousand copies of The Siege Of Corinth, a slovenly bit of Byronism that even Shelley's generosity rebelled at.

To the west, the Union gained control of the Mississippi River after the Battle of Shiloh ( April 1862 ) and Siege of Vicksburg, splitting the Confederacy in two and destroying much of their western army.

He fought several battles of attrition against Lee through the Overland Campaign to seize Richmond, though in the face of fierce resistance he altered his plans and led the Siege of Petersburg which nearly finished off the rest of Lee's army.

* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements.

* 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.

* Thomas Patten from Dooega died fighting Francisco Franco's fascist forces during the Siege of Madrid in December 1936.

* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix.

* 1897 – Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states adjacent to India's North West Frontier Province.

* 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.

* 1429 – Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orleans.

* 718 – Raising of the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople.

* 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks – the last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Charles Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown.

Kilij Arslan II invaded the empire in AD 1182, defeating the Byzantines at the Siege of Cotyaeum resulting in the Byzantine Empire losing Cotyaeum and Sozopolis.

* 1812 – Peninsula War: A coalition of Spanish, British, and Portuguese forces succeed in lifting the two-and-a-half-year-long Siege of Cádiz.

Alfred at once hurried westward and raised the Siege of Exeter.

At the Siege of Bayonne in October 1131, three years before his death, he published a will leaving his kingdom to three autonomous religious orders based in Palestine and politically largely independent on the pope, the Knights Templars, the Hospitallers, and the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, whose influences might have been expected to cancel one another out.

During the lifetime of Muhammad, he was involved in several campaigns such as the Battle of Uhud, the Battle of the Trench, the Invasion of Banu Qurayza, Battle of Khaybar, the Conquest of Mecca, the Battle of Hunayn, the Siege of Ta ' if, and the Battle of Tabuk where he was reported to have given all of his wealth for the preparation of this expedition.

* 1865 – American Civil War: The Siege of Petersburg is broken – Union troops capture the trenches around Petersburg, Virginia, forcing Confederate General Robert E. Lee to retreat.

* 537 – Siege of Rome: The Byzantine general Belisarius receives his promised reinforcements, 1, 600 cavalry, mostly of Hunnic or Slavic origin and expert bowmen.

* 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, surrounds the Jewish capital, with four Roman legions.

* 1992 – The Siege of Sarajevo begins when Serb paramilitaries murder peace protesters Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sučić on the Vrbanja Bridge.

* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: the Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord.