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.

The siege lasted two weeks, and resulted in several hundred deaths and significant damage to the shrine, especially the Safa-Marwa gallery.

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.

On one occasion he was separated from Ursicinus and took refuge in Amida during the siege of the city, which was then attacked by the Sassanid king Shapur II ; he barely escaped with his life.

On the way back after giving up the siege he fell ill from dysentery, which was ameliorated by doctors but turned into a fever in Jerusalem.

The siege of Thasos marks the transformation of the Delian league from an alliance into, in the words of Thucydides, a hegemony.

In 1011 the Danes again raided England, and from 8 – 29 September they laid siege to Canterbury.

The covered ark with golden staves carried by the priesthood ( Ancient Israel ) | priests, and seven priests with rams ' horns, at the siege of Jericho, in an eighteenth-century artist's depiction. The biblical account relates that during the Israelites ' exodus from Egypt, the Ark was carried by the priests some 2, 000 cubits in advance of the people and their army, or host.

His troops were able to recover the coras ( provinces ) of Jaén and Elvira, while a cavalry detachment was sent to free Málaga from ibn Hafsun's siege.

Marlborough could not attack Dillingen because of a lack of siege guns – he was unable to bring any from the Low Countries, and Baden had failed to supply any despite assurances to the contrary.

According to the book, the Prophet Jeremiah was a son of a priest from Anatot in the land of Benjamin, who lived in the last years of the Kingdom of Judah just prior to, during, and immediately after the siege of Jerusalem, culminating in the destruction of Solomon's Temple and the raiding of the city by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.

* Deliverance from Distress in Babylon ( 4: 9 – 5: 1 ) The similarities to Isaiah 41: 15 – 16 and the references to Babylon suggest the period of this material, although it is unclear whether a period during or after the siege of 586 is meant.

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.

Arrow firing machines in action are reported from Philip II's siege of Perinthos in Thrace in 340 BC.

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.

Arrow firing machines in action are reported from Philip II's siege of Perinth ( Thrace ) in 340 BC.

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.

The fort was partially overrun after a month-long siege, but the attackers were ultimately repelled after the arrival of British reinforcements from Halifax.

Simon de Montfort was granted the Trencavel lands by the Pope and did homage for them to the King of France, thus incurring the enmity of Peter of Aragon who had held aloof from the conflict, even acting as a mediator at the time of the siege of Carcassonne.

There he saved the city of Segesta, which had been under siege from the Carthaginian infantry commander Hamilcar.

The Reds ' major attempts to break the siege of Tampere from outside, along the Helsinki-Tampere railway, failed.

While laying the siege, the king was attacked by a Nasrid army from Granada.

* 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 ).

* 1704 11 November – A notable incident during the siege: 500 Spanish volunteer grenadiers tried to surprise the garrison after being led up a concealed path to the top of The Rock by a Spanish goatherd from Gibraltar, Simón Susarte.

* Dr. Meade: A doctor in Atlanta, he looks after injured soldiers during the siege, with assistance from Melanie and Scarlett.

The First Spanish Republic ( 1873 – 1874 ) was immediately under siege from all quarters.