Furthermore, upon hearing of the capture of Antwerp, a relief fleet sent to raise the siege instead blockades the Schelde river, preventing any and all ships from reaching Antwerp for two centuries.

Although Wade eventually advanced towards Lille, he did little more than bicker with the Austrians about the cost of moving his siege train from Antwerp.

Isaac and Maria married shortly before the Spanish siege of Antwerp in 1585 after which they fled to settle in Amsterdam.

He finally laid siege to the great seaport of Antwerp.

After a siege, on August 17, 1585 Antwerp fell, and the division of the Northern and Southern Netherlands ( mostly modern Belgium ) was defined.

In 1585 he surrendered the city, after the months ' siege of Antwerp, to the Spaniards.

After the July revolution he was made maréchal-de-camp, and in this rank he was present at the siege of Antwerp in 1832.

As early as 1825 his name was mentioned as a possible candidate for the throne of Greece, and in February 1831 he was nominated king of the Belgians, but international considerations deterred Louis-Philippe from accepting the honour for his son, who was accompanying the French army that entered Belgium to support the new kingdom in its separation from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands ; there he took part in the siege of Antwerp.

The Belgian army was committed to offering strategic support to its French and British allies and conducted two sorties out of Antwerp to force the German army to detach additional troops to the siege and to harass the enemy lines of communication during the battle of the Marne.

In 1832 he commanded the besieging army in the notorious scientific siege of the citadel of Antwerp.

The latter were by now getting desperate as they controlled only slivers of their provinces ( Parma had by now put Antwerp under siege ).

To capture Novogeorgievsk, the Germans transferred General Hans Beseler who had successfully laid siege to the Belgium city of Antwerp early in the war.

This meticulous man who became famous in the siege of Antwerp in 1832 is the nephew of the original revolutionary general Lorraine Vosges Nicolas Haxo.

Soon after this came the French intervention in Belgium and the famous scientific siege of Antwerp citadel.

When the siege of Antwerp began ( 1585 ) most of Flanders and Brabant, including Brussels, had already been recaptured in the preceding year.

When the siege of Antwerp began Parma's army was well supplied.

The first stage of the siege saw encirclement lines constructed around Antwerp and forts built along the Scheldt estuary.

The second stage consisted of commencing a long siege of Antwerp and constructing a bridge across the Scheldt, effectively closing off the city's waterways.

The disruptions of the Dutch Revolt scattered all the Antwerp artists across Northern Europe, and after the siege of Antwerp in 1585 Jan and Rafael worked in several German cities-Mainz, Frankfurt-am-main, Munich without settling for long, before they went to Italy in 1593, where Jan may have died.

Upon news of the siege of Antwerp, Norreys urged support for the Dutch Protestants and, transferring the presidency of Munster to his brother, Thomas, he rushed to London in May 1585 to prepare for a campaign in the Low Countries.

In the summer of 1266, a siege of the castle was initiated, but the effort proved futile.

The city had been under Visigothic siege since shortly after Stilicho's deposition and execution in the summer of 408.

During the summer of 1172, a Nubian army along with a contingent of Armenian refugees were reported on the Egyptian border, preparing for a siege against Aswan.

A plan had been prepared in Constantinople for uniting the Volga and Don by a canal, and in the summer of 1569 a large force of Janissaries and cavalry were sent to lay siege to Astrakhan and begin the canal works, while an Ottoman fleet besieged Azov.

Over the summer, Stephen intensified the long-running siege of Wallingford Castle in a final attempt to take this major Angevin stronghold.

In the dry summer, the grazing on the veld became parched, weakening the Boers ' horses and draught oxen, and many Boer families joined their menfolk in the siege lines and laagers ( encampments ), fatally encumbering Cronje's army.

After another decisive victory in the summer of 1040, Maniaces halted his march to lay siege to Syracuse.

In 588 BCE Zedekiah rebelled against Babylonian rule, and Nebuchadnezzar laid siege to Jerusalem ( in Tevet 10 of that year ); in the summer of 586 BCE the walls of Jerusalem were penetrated, the city conquered, the ( first ) Holy Temple destroyed, and the people of Judah exiled to Babylonia.

In the summer of 430 the Vandals put the city of Hippo under siege as the aged bishop lay on his death bed ; he died 28 August 430.

The castle withstood a lengthy siege in the summer and autumn of 1216, and Louis withdrew.

The siege continued into the summer and Fulk began negotiating with Odo.

Over the summer, Stephen intensified the long-running siege of Wallingford Castle in a final attempt to take this major Angevin stronghold.

Although they had provisions and John was moving in support of the troops, in the summer of 1203 the garrison surrendered to Philip, shortly after a siege had begun.

The siege had cost the Allies a great deal in men and resources, and had pinned down William III's army through the whole summer campaign ; but the recapture of Namur, together with the earlier prize of Huy, had restored the Allied position on the Meuse, and had secured communications between their armies in the Spanish Netherlands and those on the Moselle and Rhine.

He received further acclaim in the summer of 1315, when he successfully defended Carlisle Castle against a siege by Robert the Bruce.

In the summer of 106 the legion took part to the siege of the Dacian Capital Sarmisegetusa.

The aspect of the summer campaign was completely turned about, and the outer moat of Osaka Castle was buried, leaving the castle exposed ; the Osaka side judged a siege defense to be impossible, and intercepted Tokugawa's side going from Kyoto to Osaka in the field.

It took almost three months to cross Anatolia in the heat of the summer, and in October they began the siege of Antioch.

In early summer 1788, fighting intensified as Potemkin's forces won their naval confrontation with the Turks with few losses, and began the siege of Ochakov, a Turkish stronghold and the main Russian war aim.

A plan had been devised at Constantinople for connecting the Volga and Don by a canal, and in the summer of 1569 a large force of janissaries and cavalry was sent to lay siege to Astrakhan and begin the canal works, while an Ottoman fleet besieged Azov.

After a long and bloody siege led by the Safavid grand vizier Hatem Beg, which lasted from November 1609 to the summer of 1610, the Castle of Dimdim was captured.

Bihać suffered the destruction of many buildings during the Bosnian War for Independence, when the area around the city was under siege by joint forces composing of Bosnian Serb, Croatian Serb, and Serbian-backed Bosniaks for over three years, until the summer of 1995 when the siege was broken in the beginning of the Operation Storm conjoined with Croatian foces under Zvonimir Červenko and Bosniak forces under General Atif Dudaković.

During summer 1182, Magnus made an attempt to take Nidaros by siege, but was repulsed with grave losses when the Birkebeiners launched a surprise night attack.