* 1942 – World War II: Siege of Leningrad – Soviet forces open a much-needed railway link to Leningrad.

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.

He said of the Siege of Leningrad ( 1941 – 1944 ): " Those who consumed human flesh, or dealt with the human liver trading from dissecting rooms ... were accounted as the political criminals ..." And of the building of Northern Railway Prisoners Camp (" SevZhelDorLag ") Solzhenitsyn reports, " An ordinary hard working political prisoner almost could not survive at that penal camp.

* 1943 – World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor.

* 1944 – World War II: The 900-day Siege of Leningrad is lifted.

* 1944 – Soviet forces liberate Leningrad, effectively ending a three year Nazi siege, known as the Siege of Leningrad.

* Siege of Leningrad, 1941 – 44, by the Axis armies during World War II

Under these circumstances, during much of the Siege of Leningrad ( 1941 – 1944 ), Lake Ladoga provided the only access to the besieged city because a section of the eastern shore remained in Soviet hands.

It is a site of numerous major historical events, including the Battle of the Neva in 1240 which gave Alexander Nevsky his name, the founding of Saint Petersburg in 1703, and the Siege of Leningrad by the German army during World War II.

Operation Barbarossa's failure led to Hitler's demands for further operations inside the USSR, all of which eventually failed, such as continuing the Siege of Leningrad, Operation Nordlicht, and Battle of Stalingrad, among other battles on occupied Soviet territory.

Siege of Leningrad | Defenders of Leningrad

Another German failure was the Siege of Leningrad, in which the city was fully blockaded on land between 1941 – 44 by German and Finnish forces, suffering starvation and more than a million deaths, but never surrendering.

Critics of the textbook note the lack of detail about historical events such as the Siege of Leningrad ( 1941 – 44 ), the Gulag forced-labour camps, the Russo – Finnish Winter War ( 1939 – 40 ), the First Chechen War ( 1994 – 96 ), and the Second Chechen War ( 1999 – 2000 ), as serious factual inaccuracies ; most egregious, the critics propose, is the absence of the Holocaust ( 1933 – 45 ), and the glorification of the rule of Josef Stalin ( 1922 – 53 ).

The most important siege was the Siege of Leningrad, that lasted over 29 months, about half of the duration of the entire Second World War.

Along with the Battle of Stalingrad, the Siege of Leningrad on the Eastern Front was the deadliest siege of a city in history.

In 1922 Oleg Losev developed two-terminal, negative resistance amplifiers for radio ; however, he perished in the Siege of Leningrad.

* 1941 – World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins.

* January 27 – WWII: The 2-year Siege of Leningrad is lifted.

* September 8 – WWII – The Siege of Leningrad begins: German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union's second-largest city, Leningrad.

Before his death in 1989, Leone was part way through planning a film on the Siege of Leningrad during World War II.

While finishing work on Once Upon a Time in America in 1982, Leone was impressed with Harrison Salisbury's non-fiction book The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad, and he planned on adapting the book as a war epic.

Reports of cannibalism were also recorded during the First Crusade, as Crusaders were alleged to have fed on the bodies of their dead opponents following the Siege of Ma ' arrat al-Numan.

The Siege of Kenilworth Castle in 1266 was " probably the longest in English history " according to historian Norman Pounds, and at the time was also the largest siege to have occurred in England in terms of the number of soldiers involved.

The Siege of Tsingtao used naval troops as Tsingtao was a naval base, and also as the Imperial Navy was directly under the Imperial Government ( the German Army was made up of regiments from the various states ).

Siege techniques also included mining in which tunnels were dug under a section of the wall and then rapidly collapsed to destabilize the wall's foundation.

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

As the order spread, the ringing of the bells was taken also as a crusading call to lift the Siege of Belgrade.

Siege machinery was also a tradition of the ancient Greco-Roman world.

Siege towers also became more elaborate during the medieval period ; at the Siege of Kenilworth Castle in 1266, for example, 200 archers and 11 catapults operated from a single tower.

Finland refused German requests to participate actively in the Siege of Leningrad, and also granted asylum to Jews, while Jewish soldiers continued to serve in its army.

* The Siege of Limoges in 1370 on the Aquitaine area, after which the Black Prince was obliged to leave his post for his sickness and financial issues, but also because of the cruelty of the siege, which saw the massacre of some 3, 000 residents according to the chronicler Froissart.

Siege crossbows and firebombs were also deployed on Song ships against Mongol forces, in addition to fire lances.

* Siege of Yorktown ( 1781 ), last major battle during the American Revolutionary War, also known as the American War of Independence

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.

Directed by Geoff Murphy, it stars Steven Seagal as the ex-Navy SEAL, Casey Ryback and is the sequel to the 1992 film Under Siege also starring Seagal.

In the same year Chartres also served at the Siege of Namur.

Samuel Spring, John's son, became a Revolutionary War Chaplain commissioned in the militia at the Siege of Boston, and who also served in the Invasion of Canada ( 1775 ) under Colonel Benedict Arnold.

* Federal Siege Trench ( also known as Harper Road Trench )

In June 1560, the Siege of Leith ended with the departure of the French troops in accordance with the Treaty of Leith ( also known as the Treaty of Edinburgh ).

Pila could also be used in hand-to-hand combat ; one documented instance of this occurred at the Siege of Alesia, and another during Marcus Antonius's Parthian campaign.

** Bononia Gallo-mastix in laudem felicissimi victoris Henrici VIII ( 1545 ), also on the First Siege of Boulogne.

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.

See also the Siege of Dunkirk ( 1793 )

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 ).

( Allegedly Cellini also killed Charles III, Duke of Bourbon during the Siege of Rome.