Portuguese Ceylon remained in Portuguese hands until 1658, when it was seized by the Dutch after an epic siege.

He was further pressed militarily when an Austro-Polish army laid siege to Thorn in July 1658, and diplomatically when he was urged by France to settle.

Assault on Copenhagen ( 1659 ) during the 1658 / 59 siege

During the siege of Copenhagen by the Swedes in 1658 Nansen became prominent.

After the Swedish siege on Copenhagen ( 1658 – 1660 ) the Dutch engineer Henrik Rüse was called in to help rebuild and extend the construction.

Crowds press along the terraces, down the steps, in and out of the arcades, massing against it as though it were a fortress under siege.

Had he been able to escape this long siege of invalidism, I'm convinced, Papa would have left a sizable estate.

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.

And now, in March, all Laos suffered a state of siege.

At the same time, after initial setbacks, Grant laid siege to Vicksburg and the Union navy attained some success in Charleston harbor.

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.

* 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.

* 626 – The Avar and Slav armies leave the siege of Constantinople.

* 73 – Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the Jewish Revolt.

During the struggle of the Aetolians against Rome, it stood a stubborn siege, including the first known use of poison gas against the Romans ' siege tunnels.

* 1900 – The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British.

The Visigothic leader thereupon laid siege upon Rome in 408.

He marched to the neighborhood of Constantinople but, finding himself unable to undertake a siege, retraced his steps westward and then marched southward through Thessaly and the unguarded pass of Thermopylae into Greece.

Thus ended Alaric's first siege of Rome.

As all attempts to conduct a satisfactory negotiation with this emperor failed, Alaric, after instituting a second siege and blockade of Rome in 409, came to terms with the Senate.

Alaric, again outwitted by an enemy's machinations, marched southward and in deadly earnest, began his third siege of Rome.

In 490, Alaric assisted his fellow Gothic king, Theodoric the Great, in his conquest of Italy by dispatching an army to raise Odoacer's siege of Pavia, where Theodoric had been trapped.

Pavia offered stiff resistance however, and was only taken after a siege lasting three years.

In 1090 the Pechenegs invaded Thrace again, while Tzachas, the brother-in-law of the Sultan of Rum, launched a fleet and attempted to arrange a joint siege of Constantinople with the Pechenegs.

The crusader siege of Nicaea forced the city to surrender to the emperor in 1097, and the subsequent crusader victory at Dorylaion allowed the Byzantine forces to recover much of western Asia Minor.

The crusaders believed their oaths were made invalid when the Byzantine contingent under Tatikios failed to help them during the siege of Antioch ; Bohemund, who had set himself up as Prince of Antioch, briefly went to war with Alexios in the Balkans, but was blockaded by the Byzantine forces and agreed to become Alexios ' vassal by the Treaty of Devol in 1108.

During the Civil War, prior to the siege of Raglan Castle in 1645, King Charles I visited Abergavenny and presided in person over the trial of Sir Trefor Williams, 1st Baronet of Llangibby, a Royalist who changed sides, and other Parliamentarians.

During a siege by Parthian troops in A. D. 257, the buildings in the outermost blocks of the city grid were partially destroyed and filled with rubble to reinforce the city wall.

During the siege of February 1945 the city infrastructure was 65 % destroyed, including most of the historical city center.

During the first siege, Ephrem credits Bishop Jacob as defending the city with his prayers.

During the siege, Gibraltar played a key role as the supply base of the besieged.

* 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 ).

During the siege, on 8 February 1913, the Russian pilot N. de Sackoff, flying for the Greeks, became the first pilot ever shot down in combat, when his biplane was hit by ground fire following a bomb run on the walls of Fort Bizani.

During the siege, he purchased a captaincy in the grenadier company of the 40th Regiment of Foot.

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

During this period of French rule, the defences of the fortress were strengthened by the famous siege engineer Vauban.

During this siege, Vauban, the famous French military engineer, developed a new strategy in order to break down the strong fortifications surrounding Maastricht.

During this millennium, fortifications changed warfare, and in turn were modified to suit new tactics, weapons and siege techniques.

During the War of 1812, Nova Scotia ’ s contribution to the war effort was communities either purchasing or building various privateer ships to lay siege to American vessels.

During a summer-long siege which was later to be known as the Siege of Malta, the Ottoman forces which numbered around 50, 000 fought the Knights of St. John and the Maltese garrison which in total numbered around 6, 000.

During the siege of Nagashima, Nobunaga suffered tremendous losses, including the death of a couple of his brothers, to the Ikkō-ikki resistance, a coalition of peasant farmers, monks, Shinto priests and local nobles that opposed samurai rule.

During Childeric's siege and blockade of Paris in 464, the nun Geneviève ( later canonised as the city's Patron Saint ) pleaded with the Frankish King for the welfare of prisoners of war and met with a favourable response.

During the Warring States era of ancient China, there is both textual and archaeological evidence of prolonged sieges and siege machinery used against the defenders of city walls.

During the Renaissance and the Early Modern period, siege warfare dominated the conduct of war in Europe.

During a siege a surrounding army would build earthworks ( a line of circumvallation ) to completely encircle their target, preventing food, water, and other supplies from reaching the besieged city.

During the Renaissance and the Early Modern period, siege warfare continued to dominate the conduct of the European wars.

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.

During the siege of the Stonewall, Craig Rodwell called The New York Times, The New York Post, and The New York Daily News to inform them what was happening.