With 7, 000 men, the Tokugawa forces lay siege to Ueda Castle, which was defended by only 2, 000 soldiers.

Later, in 1585, he joined Okubo Tadayo and Hiraiwa Chikayoshi in laying siege to the Sanada clan's Ueda Castle.

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.

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

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.

His son-in-law, Theodore Laskaris, who was the only one to attempt anything significant, was defeated at Scutari, and the siege of Constantinople began.

Alexios V Doukas, surnamed Mourtzouphlos (, d. December 1205, Constantinople ) was Byzantine Emperor ( 5 February – 12 April 1204 ) during the second and final siege of Constantinople by the participants of the Fourth Crusade.

In Berkshire, a successful skirmish at the Battle of Englefield on 31 December 870 was followed by a severe defeat at the siege and Battle of Reading by Ivar's brother Halfdan Ragnarsson on 5 January 871 ; then, four days later, Alfred won a brilliant victory at the Battle of Ashdown on the Berkshire Downs, possibly near Compton or Aldworth.

Nicaea, until 1261 the capital of the Empire, was under siege by Ottoman Turks.

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.

The siege was long and famine broke out in the Christian camp ; the Byzantines and crusades blamed each other for the failure, and a truce was signed with Saladin.

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.

Adhemar negotiated with Alexius I Comnenus at Constantinople, reestablished at Nicaea some discipline among the crusaders, fought a crucial role at the Battle of Dorylaeum and was largely responsible for sustaining morale during the siege of Antioch through various religious rites including fasting and special observances of holy days.

Much of the city, including the oil refinery which was the world's largest refinery with capacity of 680, 000 barrels per day, was badly damaged or destroyed by the siege and by bombing.

The siege was successful, but the behaviour of the Spartan general Pausanias alienated many of the Allies, and resulted in Pausanias's recall.

After a three-year siege, Thasos was recaptured and forced back into the League.

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.

The Ark was with the army during the siege of Rabbah ( 2 Sam.

The latter state was forced to surrender to Athens after a siege, and to accept the position of a subject-ally ( c. 456 BC ).

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

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.

In 1600 – 1601, as a result of the siege of Giorgio Basta, the fortress turned to ruins.

In 432 BC, he commanded a force of 1600 hoplites sent to assist in the siege of Potidaea.

In 1600, the castle fell in a famous and significant siege by Ishida Mitsunari.

Federal siege artillery followed, and Parke set up four batteries that would bear on the fort: four 8-inch ( 20. 3 cm ) mortars at a range of 1200 yards ( 1100 meters ); four 10-inch ( 25. 4 cm ) mortars at a range of 1600 yards ( 1460 meters ); three 30-pounder ( 13. 6 kg ) rifled Parrotts at a range of 1300 yards ( 1190 meters ); and a 12-pounder ( 5. 4 kg ) boat howitzer at a range of 1200 yards ( 1100 meters ).

On September 5, a French force of 1600 men broke the siege, led by Jean de Dunois and La Hire, commanders who would go on to lead the army of Joan of Arc.

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

An 87-day siege of a Croatian city by the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ), supported by various Serbian paramilitary forces, between August – November 1991 during the Croatian War of Independence

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.

At the very outset, he had to meet the formidable attack of the Normans ( led by Robert Guiscard and his son Bohemund ), who took Dyrrhachium and Corfu, and laid siege to Larissa in Thessaly ( see Battle of Dyrrhachium ).

After the capture of the city in June, 1098, and the subsequent siege led by Kerbogha, Adhemar organized a procession through the streets, and had the gates locked so that the Crusaders, many of whom had begun to panic, would be unable to desert the city.

However, the lower-class foot soldiers continued to think of Adhemar as a leader ; some of them claimed to have been visited by his ghost during the siege of Jerusalem, and reported that Adhemar instructed them to hold another procession around the walls.

The buildings of the Acropolis suffered significant damage during the 1687 siege by the Venetians in the Morean War.

* 1826 – The 10, 500 inhabitants of the Greek town Missolonghi start leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces.

Surrounded by the vizier Said ibn al-Mundhir who had ordered the construction of bastions around the city, he resisted the siege for six months, until he surrendered, having his life spared ( 928 ).

According to accounts which vary in some of the details, in 340 BC the Byzantines and their allies the Athenians were under siege by the troops of Philip of Macedon.

The means of prolonging a battle was typically by employment of siege warfare.

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.

The Tokugawa Shogunate sent a force of over 125, 000 troops to suppress the rebellion, and after a lengthy siege against the rebels at Hara Castle, defeated them.

The allied armies of the local domains, under the command of the Tokugawa shogunate with Itakura Shigemasa as commander-in-chief, then began their siege of Hara Castle.

Both Tokugawa Ieyasu ( 徳川家康 ) and Oda Nobunaga ( 織田信長 ) sent troops to break the siege and their combined forces defeated Takeda Katsuyori ( 武田勝頼 ).

According to the Shinchō kōki Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu brought a total force of 38, 000 men to relieve the siege on the castle by Takeda Katsuyori.

In the subsequent Battle of Nagashino, the combined forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga brought a total force of 38, 000 men to relieve the siege on the castle by Takeda Katsuyori.

The siege of Osaka Castle was a series of battles undertaken by the Tokugawa shougunate against the Toyotomi clan, and ending in that clan ’ s destruction.

There are also records of pillaging and mass rapes by Tokugawa forces at the closing of the siege.

Kagekatsu had intended to move his force south, attacking the Tokugawa from the north-east while Ishida attacked from the west, but he was defeated very early in the campaign, at the siege of his castle at Shiroishi.

Kagekatsu would later fight for the Tokugawa shogunate against the Toyotomi clan in the 1614-15 siege of Osaka.

Divided into two stages ( the " Winter Campaign " and the " Summer Campaign "), and lasting from 1614 through 1615, the siege put an end to the last major armed opposition to the establishment of an enduring Tokugawa shogunate.

At the siege of Osaka from 1614 to 1615, Nagashige fought on Tokugawa Ieyasu's side.

She participated in the siege of Aizuwakamatsu Castle ( Tsuruga Castle ) and was the adoptive sister of Matsudaira Katamori, Military Commissioner of Kyoto and a prominent figure on the Tokugawa Shogunate's side during the Meiji Restoration.

The siege of Fushimi Castle stalled the advancement of the 40, 000 troops by ten days, allowing Tokugawa to escape.

In 1590, Odawara fell to siege at the hands of Toyotomi Hideyoshi ; his father and uncle were forced to commit seppuku, but Ujinao was spared because he was Tokugawa Ieyasu's son-in-law.