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The Confederacy lacked reinforcements, so Lee's army shrank with every battle, forcing it back to trenches outside Petersburg, Virginia, where Grant began a siege.
Alaric, again outwitted by an enemy's machinations, marched southward and in deadly earnest, began his third siege of Rome.
His son-in-law, Theodore Laskaris, who was the only one to attempt anything significant, was defeated at Scutari, and the siege of Constantinople began.
He began the siege of Calatayud, but left to defeat the army at Cutanda trying to retake Zaragoza.
El Cid began a siege of Valencia.
By 1704 the Julian calendar was eleven days behind the Gregorian, and the siege thus began on 21 July according to the Julian.
* 1704 1 August ( NS ): ( 21 July ( OS )) – During the War of the Spanish Succession, and when returning from a failed expedition to Barcelona, an Anglo-Dutch fleet, under the command of Sir George Rooke, chief commander of the Alliance Navy, began a new siege ( the eleventh siege of the town ).
They began to muster new armies, and the Germans settled down to a grim siege of Paris.
He began to gather his army together hoping for a rapid and decisive siege of the Mughal capital.
June 2003, LURD began a siege of Monrovia.
Tarquin unsuccessfully sought to take the Rutulian capital Ardea by storm, and subsequently began an extensive siege of the city.
Conrad II's army arrived to Lusatia in the autumn of 1029 and began the siege of Bautzen ; but the German troops did not receive the promised support of the Lutici tribe and the expedition failed.
By the late 1810s, under siege from the Quadrille, dancing masters began to invent " new " forms of country dance, often with figures borrowed from the Quadrille, and giving them exotic names such as the Danse Ecossoise and Danse Espagnuole which suggested entire new dances but actually covered very minor variations in the classic form.
* 1565 – The Knights of Malta lift the Turkish siege of Malta that began on May 18.
In between watching coverage of the Waco siege on TV, Nichols and his brother began teaching McVeigh how to make explosives out of readily available materials ; specifically, they combined household chemicals in plastic jugs.
According to biographer McFeely, as the siege began, Grant lapsed into a two day drinking episode.
The siege of Montevideo, which began in February 1843, would last nine years.
The siege of Montevideo, which began in February 1843, would last nine years and capture the world's imagination.
Italy began operations in the Mediterranean, initiating a siege of Malta in June, conquering British Somaliland in August, and making an incursion into British-held Egypt in September 1940.
Charles gathered his forces in Calabria and made a landing near Messina and began a siege.
From early November about 7, 500 Boer began their siege, again content to starve the town into submission.
For all the tactical advantages offered, it was only under Philip II of Macedon and even more so under his son Alexander, that the ballista began to develop and gain recognition as both siege engine and field artillery.
In May 1776, British troops began to arrive at Quebec City, where they broke the Continental Army's siege.

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After an unspeakable siege, lasting the better part of two months, it was announced that the studio `` owed '' the government a tax debt in excess of eight million dollars while I, who had always remained aloof from such iniquitous practices as paying taxes on the salary I had earned and the little I legally inherited as Morris' helpless relict, was `` stung '' with a personal bill of such astronomical proportions as to `` wipe out '' all but a fraction of my poor, hard-come-by savings.
* 1453 – Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople ( Istanbul ), which falls on May 29.
* 1900 – Philippine – American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U. S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.
In Berkshire, a successful skirmish at the Battle of Englefield on 31 December 870 was followed by a severe defeat at the siege and Battle of Reading by Ivar's brother Halfdan Ragnarsson on 5 January 871 ; then, four days later, Alfred won a brilliant victory at the Battle of Ashdown on the Berkshire Downs, possibly near Compton or Aldworth.
* 1985 – FBI siege on the compound of The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord ( CSAL ) in Arkansas
The Abbasid army was fast on his heels, and laid siege to Carmona for approximately two months.
The city surrendered on 2 August 932, after a siege of two years.
The CDN has authority to " express an opinion in instances of declaration of war and the celebration of peace " and to " express an opinion on the decreeing of a state of emergency, state of siege, or federal intervention.
On the latter front Marshal Vendôme defeated the Imperial army at Calcinato on 19 April, pushing the Imperialists back in confusion ( French forces were now in a position to prepare for the long-anticipated siege of Turin ).
" In the mean time, Marlborough invested the elaborate fortress of Menin which, after a costly siege, capitulated on 22 August.
Sailing on through the Bosporus, the expedition laid siege to Thessalonica in Macedonia.
With their cavalry support gone, the Cossack wagon-fort, containing the vast bulk of the Cossack army now stood isolated on the battlefield, and in effect was under siege by the Polish army.
The British arrived on 6 June, and by August had Havana under siege.
Mehmed had begun the siege on April 6, 1453.
While Constantius was away from the eastern frontier in early 337, Shapur assembled a large army, including war elephants, and launched an attack on Roman territory, laying waste to Mesopotamia and putting Nisibis under siege.
Torsion weapons, which rely on the energy generated from twisted animal sinew became siege weapons and light artillery – such as the Greek ballista or the Roman scorpion.
First used in China, cannon were among the earliest forms of gunpowder artillery, and over time replaced siege engines — among other forms of aging weaponry — on the battlefield.
Because of their immobility, most Ballistas were constructed on site following a siege assessment by the commanding military officer.
The War of the Austrian Succession saw Britain and France in conflict with each other, and in 1745 several warships and a small contingent of troops were sent from Boston, first to the Nova Scotian fishing port of Canso, and on to Louisbourg where they laid siege to the fortress until the French surrendered and were evacuated.
Simon was killed on 25 June 1218 after maintaining a siege of Toulouse for nine months.
A siege of the castle was started, but through papal intervention King Henry later entered on a more conciliatory path.

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