The Siege of the Alcázar in the Spanish Civil War, in which the Nationalists held out against a much larger Republican force for two months until relieved, shows that in some cases a citadel can be effective even in modern warfare ; a similar case is the Battle of Huế, where an NVA division held the citadel of Huế for 26 days against roughly their own numbers of much better-equipped US and South Vietnamese troops.

The " Siege of the Alcázar " in the Spanish Civil War refers to this castle, which was held by the Nationalist Colonel José Moscardó Ituarte against Republican forces.

German air crews supported the Nationalist advance on Madrid, and the successful relief of the Siege of the Alcázar.

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.

* 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.

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.

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

King Afonso I at the Siege of Lisbon.

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

* Count Aelianus, leader of the Roman defensive forces at the Siege of Amida in 359.

Following the Christian defeat at the Siege of Edessa, the pope commissioned Bernard to preach the Second Crusade.

Bonaparte's army was trapped in Egypt, and Royal Navy dominance off the Syrian coast contributed significantly to its defeat at the Siege of Acre in 1799, which preceded Bonaparte's return to Europe.

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.

Nevertheless, Thucydides chose to begin his history where Herodotus left off ( at the Siege of Sestos ), and may therefore have felt that Herodotus's history was accurate enough not to need re-writing or correcting.

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.

* 1992 – War in Abkhazia: During the Siege of Tkvarcheli, a helicopter carrying evacuees from Tkvarcheli, Abkhazia, is shot down, resulting in at least 52 deaths, 25 of which are children.

He first saw action against the Ottoman Turks at the Siege of Vienna in 1683 and the subsequent War of the Holy League, before serving in the Nine Years ' War, fighting alongside his cousin, the Duke of Savoy.

Initially fighting on the Rhine with Max Emmanuel – receiving a slight head wound at the Siege of Mainz in 1689 – Eugene subsequently transferred himself to Piedmont after Victor Amadeus joined the Alliance against France in 1690.

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.

A Legionnaire sniper at Siege of Tuyen Quang | Tuyen Quang

Two Foreign Legion companies led the defence at the celebrated Siege of Tuyên Quang ( 24 November 1884 to 3 March 1885 ).

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.

Lord Cornwallis surrenders at Siege of Yorktown | Yorktown to American and French allies.

* 1863 – Second Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson during the American Civil War.

* 1740 – A combined force Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins ' Ear.

* 1758 – French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg – James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia commences.

He was involved in a skirmish near Williamsburg, and was at the Siege of Yorktown.

Clockwise from top left: The central street of Dubrovnik, the Stradun ( street ) | Stradun, in ruins during the Siege of Dubrovnik ; the damaged Vukovar water tower, a symbol of the early conflict, flying the Flag of Croatia | Croatian tricolour ; soldiers of the Croatian Army getting ready to destroy a Republic of Serbian Krajina | Serbian tank ; the Vukovar Memorial Cemetery ; a Serbian T-55 tank destroyed on the road to Drniš

As in the early years of the British period, during the Siege the British Government considered to exchange Gibraltar for some Spanish possession.

The most widely acknowledged precursors of the grindcore sound are Siege, a hardcore punk group, and Repulsion, an early death metal outfit.

Little is known for certain of his early life, though he spent some time in Ireland, in Killua Castle, Clonmellon, County Westmeath, taking part in the suppression of rebellions and participating in the Siege of Smerwick.

* April 13 – Seven-Year War: The Siege of Busan ( an early action in the Japanese invasions of Korea ) begins.

Siege operations commenced on March 16 ; by early April, there were three practicable breaches in the walls.

It may be that his early death, during the Great Plague of 1350, at the Siege of Gibraltar, only averted a desperate struggle with Peter, though it was a misfortune in that it removed a ruler of eminent capacity, who understood his subjects well enough not to go too far.

It was the site of the Siege of Corinth, an early campaign in the American Civil War.

Horace Vere, 1st Baron Vere of Tilbury | Sir Horatio Vere was the commander of English troops in Holland during the Siege of Ostend, under whom Standish likely served. The circumstances of Standish's early military career in Holland ( the " low countries " to which Morton referred ) are vague at best.

During the early twentieth century they were popular in Russia with re-enactments of the Siege of Sevastopol ( 1854 – 1855 ) ( 1906 ), the Battle of Borodino ( 1812 ) in St Petersburg and the Taking of Azov ( 1696 ) in Voronezh in 1918.

The Siege of Angband or " The Long Peace " in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth fictional universe was the siege of the Noldor around the fortress of Morgoth in the early centuries of the Years of the Sun, which began following the Dagor Aglareb.

Although there were early successes for the British, in particular at Maida, the British failed to either reinforce Stuart's expedition or attempt to relieve the Siege of Gaeta.

Jean Étienne Vachier, called Championnet ( 13 April 1762, Alixan, Drôme-9 January 1800 ), French general, enlisted in the army at an early age and served in the Great Siege of Gibraltar.

His first action was to mount a counter-guerrilla expedition into the Wicklow Mountains early in June 1650, in order to secure his lines of supply for the Siege of Waterford in Ireland's southeast.

The holiday commemorates the evacuation of British forces from the city of Boston following the Siege of Boston, early in the American Revolutionary War.

In the early second season episode " The Siege ", she is ill-at-ease in the spider-filled caverns of a Bajoran moon, and is later disoriented by Kira's reckless piloting of a Bajoran starfighter.

He was back early in spring, relieving the Siege of Madras, but the French admiral did not return to the Bay of Bengal till September.

He entered the Gardes Françaises at an early age and distinguished himself at the Siege of Lille in 1667.

State of Siege ( 1973 ) takes place in Uruguay under a conservative government in the early 1970s.

An early transportable mortar was invented by Baron Menno van Coehoorn ( Siege of Grave, 1673 < ref >

The 33rd saw much action during the American War of Independence, with its first engagement at the battle of Sullivan's Island ( First Siege of Charleston ) in early 1776, when British forces attempted an assault on that city's defences.

* Christopher Duffy Siege warfare: the fortress in the early modern world, 1494-1660 Routledge, 1979 ISBN 0-7100-8871-X

In his early life he distinguished himself in the Siege of Vienna and pursued a successful military career.

The mechanic is highly similar to that of later Ultima games ( so much so that fans have recreated certain Ultima titles using the Dungeon Siege engine ), and to a lesser degree, early action role-playing games like Diablo and Nox.