* 1916 – World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut ( present-day Iraq ) in the Battle of Dujaila.

This sepoy POW shows the conditions of the garrison at Kut at the end Siege of Kut | of the siege in the First World War.

The other major siege outside Europe during the First World War was in Mesopotamia, at the Siege of Kut.

After a failed attempt to move on Baghdad, stopped by the Ottomans at the bloody Battle of Ctesiphon, the British and their large contingent of Indian sepoy soldiers were forced to retreat to Kut, where the Ottomans under German General Baron Colmar von der Goltz laid siege.

On December 7, 1915, the Turks, under their commander, the German Field Marshal Baron von der Goltz, arrived at Kut and began a siege.

Once it became clear the Ottomans had enough forces to lay siege to Kut, Townshend ordered his cavalry to escape south, which it did, led by Lieut.

After three attacks in December, Goltz directed the building of siege fortifications facing Kut.

An Indian soldier after siege of Kut

In British Army battle honours, the siege of Kut is named as " Defence of Kut Al Amara ".

After a brief refit in Egypt where the Division's battalions were being brought back up to strength, the Division was dispatched to Mesopotamia ( modern day Iraq ), as reinforcements for Anglo-Indian forces attempting to relief the siege of Kut.

On 29 April 1916, following the Tigris Corps ' failure to break the Turkish siege and the sinking of the steamer Julnar as it attempted to steam upriver past the Turkish defenders, the Kut garrison surrendered.

Those attempts, however, failed and Kut remained under siege until it surrendered to the Ottomans on 29 April 1916.

) During the siege, returning sick and wounded, and the few replacements who were sent out, were unable to re-join their battalion, so they, and similar drafts of the 2nd Battalion, The Norfolk Regiment, were amalgamated into a scratch battalion forming part of the force attempting to relieve Kut.

On 7 December, the siege of Kut began.

Halil Kut forced the British to choose between starving or surrendering, though in the mean time they would try to lift the siege.

Following the failure to relieve the siege at Kut, Lake was recalled to London to testify before the newly-established Mesopotamia Commission of Inquiry set-up to investigate the problems in the region.

The group has also expressed concern about what they say is " the excessive Israeli response to the Al Aqsa Intifada and the prolonged closure and siege of villages and towns on the West Bank ".

The Moorish chronicler Al Maqqari records a Muslim victory, while Astronomus simply states that the besieged offered Louis's the keys to the city and, satisfied, the King of Aquitaine lifted his siege and left.

After resting his armies, in June 633 Khalid laid siege to the city of Al Anbar, which resisted and eventually surrendered after a siege of a few weeks in July 633 after the Siege of Al-Anbar.

According to the Tanakh, however, Ahab with 7, 000 troops had previously overthrown Ben-hadad and his thirty-two kings, who had come to lay siege to Samaria, and in the following year obtained a decisive victory over him at Aphek, probably in the plain of Sharon at Antipatris ( 1 Kings 20 ).

The second siege would later start on June 7.

Others, nevertheless, still maintain that the remains are those of the Jewish Zealots who committed suicide during the siege of Masada, and all were reburied at Masada with full military honours on July 7, 1969.

The major battles were all fought in one month ( 7 August till 1 September ), and both French armies were captured at Sedan and Metz, the latter after a siege of some weeks.

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

* September 7 – Lord Forbes raises his unsuccessful siege of Galway.

* January 7 – WWII: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.

* October 7 – Almería, one of the most important maritime and commercial centers of al-Andalus, falls into Christian hands after two months of siege.

* June 7 – Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine after a long siege, ending the independence of the Patriarchal State of Friuli, run by the Patriarch of Aquileia.

* May 7 – The Tourelles, the last English siege fortification at Orléans, falls.

From early November about 7, 500 Boer began their siege, again content to starve the town into submission.

After a siege lasting 118 days, the Relief of Ladysmith was effected, the day after Cronje surrendered, but at a total cost of 7, 000 British casualties.

4: 7 ), as well as an account of Nebuchadnezzar's siege of Jerusalem and looting and destruction of the temple ( Jer.

Constantine faced the siege defending his city of 60, 000 people with an army only numbering 7, 000 men.

On December 7, Matsui Iwane ordered the siege of Nanking.

On 7 November, the US vetoed a third draft resolution, condemning Israeli violations of human rights, the siege of towns, the ransacking of the homes and the confiscation of their property and valuables.

Boone responded by leading a preemptive raid against the Shawnees across the Ohio River, and then by helping to successfully defend Boonesborough against a ten-day siege led by Blackfish, which began on September 7, 1778.

He first invaded Norway in 1716 with a combined force of 7, 000 men, occupied the capital Christiania, ( modern Oslo ), and laid siege to the Akershus fortress.

The Allied siege of La Rochelle took place between 12 September 1944, and 7 May 1945 ; the stronghold, including the islands of Ré and Oléron, was held by 20, 000 German troops under a German vice-admiral Ernst Schirlitz.

After a siege of several months, Oudewater was conquered by the Spanish on August 7, 1575, and most of its inhabitants were killed.

These troops were among the first non-New Englanders to join the siege of Boston, arriving on August 7, 1775.

He then joined the Eastern Association under the command of the Earl of Manchester as a volunteer at the siege of Lincoln, and on 7 October 1643 he was commissioned as a major in Colonel King's regiment of foot.

The best documented day of the siege was 7 May 1560, when the English and Scots charged the walls of Leith with ladders that turned out to be too short.

On September 26, transports with artillery, siege tools, and some French infantry and shock troops from the Head of Elk, the northern end of the Chesapeake Bay arrived, giving Washington command of an army of 7, 800 Frenchmen, 3, 100 militia, and 8, 000 Continentals.

For example there is mention of late armor ( 1 Samuel 17: 4 – 7, 38 – 39 ; 25: 13 ), use of camels ( 1 Samuel 30: 17 ) and cavalry ( as distinct from chariotry ) ( 1 Samuel 13: 5, 2 Samuel 1: 6 ), iron picks and axes ( as though they were common, 2 Samuel 12: 31 ), sophisticated siege techniques ( 2 Samuel 20: 15 ), there is a gargantuan troop ( 2 Samuel 17: 1 ), a battle with 20, 000 casualties ( 2 Samuel 18: 7 ), and refer to Kushite paramilitary and servants, clearly giving evidence of a date in which Kushites were common, after the 26th Dynasty of Egypt, the period of the last quarter of the 8th century BCE.