The siege lasted for 39 days and nine militants and the church's bellringer were killed.

The siege lasted four months before the fortress fell to the Vikings who returned to Ireland with many prisoners, " Angles, Britons and Picts ", in 871.

Consequently a siege was laid, which lasted for fourteen months, and the fort was taken in 1620.

During the lengthy siege, which lasted until 1191, Patriarch Heraclius, Queen Sibylla and her daughters, and many others died of disease.

The siege had lasted 12 months.

He rejoined Belisarius for his campaign against the Ostrogothic kingdom in Italy and experienced the Gothic siege of Rome that lasted a year and nine days, ending in mid-March, 538.

The Egyptian siege of Megiddo in the 15th century BC lasted for 7 months before its inhabitants surrendered.

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.

The 1993 police siege on the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas, lasted 51 days, an atypically long police siege.

Even then, the siege lasted almost a year, making it the longest siege in English history.

The siege lasted six months, with Pepin's army ravaged by the diseases of the local swamps and eventually forced to withdraw.

The siege lasted 47 days.

However, the story is almost certainly untrue ; during the siege, which lasted only one month, no battering rams were used, although many cannons were.

Once again Perkin attempted to lay siege to Waterford, but this time his effort lasted only eleven days before he was forced to flee Ireland, chased by four English ships.

The siege started on 4 September 1346, and lasted until the town surrendered on 3 August 1347.

During World War II, Sevastopol withstood intensive bombardment by the Germans in 1941 – 1942, during the Axis siege which lasted for 250 days before it fell in July 1942.

After an exhausting siege which lasted 47 days, the city fell, with an estimated 40, 000 killed and the remaining Jewish resistance committing suicide.

In 870 an army led by the Viking chiefs known in Irish as Amlaíb Conung and Ímar laid siege to Alt Clut, a siege which lasted some four months and led to the destruction of the citadel and the taking of a very large number of captives.

During this siege, which lasted about thirty months, " every worst woe befell the city, which drank the cup of God's fury to the dregs ".

The Athenians defeated them by sea, and, after a siege that lasted more than two years, took the capital, Thasos, probably in 463 BC, and compelled the Thasians to destroy their walls, surrender their ships, pay an indemnity and an annual contribution ( in 449 BC this was 21 talents, from 445 BC about 30 talents ), and resign their possessions on the mainland.

The siege of Rhodes lasted a year and ended in 304 BC when Demetrius meeting with obstinate resistance, he was obliged to make a peace treaty upon the terms that the Rhodians would build ships for Antigonus and aid him against any enemy except for Ptolemy, on whom they bestowed the title Soter ( savior ) for his aid during the lengthy siege.

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.

We possess two declamations under his name: On Sophists, directed against Isocrates and setting forth the superiority of extempore over written speeches ( a more recently discovered fragment of another speech against Isocrates is probably of later date ); Odysseus ( perhaps spurious ) in which Odysseus accuses Palamedes of treachery during the siege of Troy

The Abbasid army was fast on his heels, and laid siege to Carmona for approximately two months.

Jafar, after two years of siege, escaped the city to ask for help in the northern Christian kingdoms.

The city surrendered on 2 August 932, after a siege of two years.

Enniskillen and Derry were the two garrisons in Ulster that were not wholly loyal to James II, it was the last town to fall before the siege of Derry.

The two regiments of the Foreign Legion took part, as the " Foreign Brigade ", in the battle of Alma ( 20 September 1854 ) and the siege of Sevastopol, during the winter of 1854 – 1855.

The northern fortress of Eger was famously defended in the autumn of 1552 during the 39 day Siege of Eger against the combined force of two Ottoman armies numbering circa 120, 000 men and 16 ultra-heavy siege guns.

According to William of Tyre, " barely three hundred knights and two thousand foot soldiers could be found " in the kingdom in 1100 during Godfrey's siege of Arsuf.

Kearny sent Carson and two other men to slip through the siege and get reinforcements.

A previous Polish siege of the burgh had been unsuccessful ; although the duke had fled the burgh, the Polish army was unable to break through the fortifications and the two gates.

The rampart was complete in the spring of 73, after probably two to three months of siege, allowing the Romans to finally breach the wall of the fortress with a battering ram on April 16.

In the European Theater of Operations napalm was used by American forces in the siege of La Rochelle in April 1945 against German soldiers ( and inadvertently French civilians in Royan )-about two weeks before the end of the war.

Rescued by two Neapolitan barons who had sided for Louis, Raimondello Orsini and Tommaso di Sanseverino, after six months of siege he succeeded in making his escape to Genoa with six galleys sent him by doge Antoniotto Adorno.

Turkey | Turks Fall of Constantinople | laid siege to Constantinople for nearly two months in 1453.

At the end of the 17th century, two influential military engineers, the French Marshal Vauban and the Dutch military engineer Menno van Coehoorn, developed modern fortification to its pinnacle, refining siege warfare without fundamentally altering it: ditches would be dug ; walls would be protected by glacis ; and bastions would enfilade an attacker.

Meanwhile, inside, Matzerath tries to rescue the half-blind Victor Weluhn ( who had escaped from the siege of the Polish post office in Danzig at the beginning of the book and of the war ) from his two green-hatted would-be executioners.

Hideyoshi led troops in the Battle of Anegawa in 1570 in which Oda Nobunaga allied with future rival Tokugawa Ieyasu ( who would eventually displace Hideyoshi's son and rule Japan ) to lay siege to two fortresses of the Azai and Asakura clans.

According to biographer McFeely, as the siege began, Grant lapsed into a two day drinking episode.

After two defeats in Northern Italy and a siege of Rome ended by a negotiated pay-off, Alaric was cheated by another Roman faction.

This cleared the way for the French army under the Duke of Berwick to besiege the imperial fort at Philippsburg, which fell after a siege of two months in July 1734.

* 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.

* October 2 – After two days of siege, Major Buckrucker and his men surrender.

* August – Huguenot rebellions: Louis XIII besieges the Huguenot city of Montauban in the Siege of Montauban, but is forced to abandon his siege two months later.