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Siege of Bonjol
The Siege of Bonjol was the culminating operation of the Padri War, in which Dutch forces besieged Tuanku Imam Bonjol's forts in Sumatra from March to August 1837.
Siege of Boston
The Siege of Boston (April 1775 to March 17, 1776) was the American Revolutionary War's opening campaign, in which Washington's army bottled up about 11,000 British troops until Dorchester Heights artillery forced their evacuation.
Siege of Breda (1624)
Siege of Breda (1624-1625), also Beleg van Breda: Eighty Years' War blockade in which Ambrogio Spinola's 18,000-strong Spanish army starved out Justinus van Nassau's garrison, which surrendered in June 1625, immortalized by Velázquez.
Siege of Brimstone Hill
The Siege of Brimstone Hill was a month-long French siege in early 1782 that captured the British fortress on Brimstone Hill on the northwest coast of St Kitts.
Siege of Brno (1645)
The siege of Brno (1645) was a failed 112-day Swedish siege of the Moravian city during the Thirty Years' War, defended by Colonel Raduit de Souches.
Siege of Buda (1541)
The Siege of Buda (1541) (Buda ostroma) was a failed Habsburg siege after which Sultan Suleiman I seized Buda's castle, making it the center of Ottoman Hungary for 145 years.
Siege of Budapest
The Siege of Budapest, also known as the Battle of Budapest, was a 1944–1945 Soviet and Romanian encirclement of the Hungarian capital, one of the bloodiest city sieges in the European theater.
Siege of Bukhara
The siege of Bukhara was the capture of the Central Asian city of Bukhara by Genghis Khan's Mongol army in 1220, during the Mongol conquest of the Khwarazmian Empire.
Siege of Bursa
The Siege of Bursa (Bursa Kuşatması) was the Ottoman blockade and capture of Byzantine Bursa in Anatolia, completed by Orhan Gazi on 6 April 1326.
Siege of Busanjin
The Siege of Busanjin (부산진전투) was the first land battle of Japan's 1592 invasion of Korea, in which commander Jeong Bal died defending Busanjin fortress.
Siege of Caffa (1475)
The Siege of Caffa (Kefe'nin Fethi) was the Ottoman capture of the Genoese colony of Caffa in the Crimea in June 1475, ending over two centuries of Genoese rule.
Siege of Caizhou
The Siege of Caizhou (蔡州之战) was the final campaign of the Jin dynasty, a joint siege by the Mongol Empire and Southern Song in 1233–1234 that ended with Emperor Aizong's suicide and the dynasty's fall.
Siege of Calais (1558)
Siege of Calais (1558): winter capture of English-held Calais by Francis, Duke of Guise for Henry II, ending 211 years of English rule; town fell in early January 1558 and was confirmed to France at Cateau-Cambrésis (1559).
Siege of Calais (1940)
The Siege of Calais (23–26 May 1940) saw about 4,000 French and British troops hold the Channel port against German armor, delaying the advance on Dunkirk.
Siege of Candia
The Siege of Candia (Kandiye Kuşatması) was the Ottoman siege of Venetian-held Candia, today's Heraklion on Crete, from 1648 to 1669, the main episode of the Cretan War.
Siege of Capua
The Siege of Capua (211 BC) was a Roman siege of Capua in Campania, which had defected to Hannibal in 216 BC and fell in 211 BC.
Siege of Carchemish
The siege of Carchemish was the capture of Carchemish on the Euphrates by the Hittite Great King Šuppiluliuma I around 1330 BC, ending Mitanni rule.
Siege of Carthage (Third Punic War)
The siege of Carthage, also called the Fall of Carthage, was the final operation of the Third Punic War, ending with Rome's destruction of the city in 146 BC.
Siege of Cawnpore
Siege of Cawnpore (Kanpur), June 1857: Nana Sahib's rebels besieged Sir Hugh Wheeler's British garrison for three weeks during the Indian Rebellion; the surrendered defenders were massacred at Satti Chaura Ghat and Bibighar.
Siege of Ceuta (1084)
The siege of Ceuta (حصار سبتة) of 1084 was the Almoravid conquest of the port city of Ceuta, ending the independent rule of Saqut and his son Yahya.
Siege of Champaner
The Siege of Champaner (چمپانیر کا محاصرہ) was the 1484 capture of the Pavagadh hill fort by Sultan Mahmud Begada of Gujarat after a siege of about 20 months.
Siege of Chanderi
The Siege of Chanderi was Babur's storming of the hill fort of Chanderi, in present-day Madhya Pradesh, against Medini Rai's Rajput garrison in January 1528.
Siege of Changchun
The Siege of Changchun (长春围困战) was the encirclement of Changchun by the People's Liberation Army from May to October 1948 during the Chinese Civil War.
Siege of Chen Prefecture
The Siege of Chen Prefecture (陈州之围) was Huang Chao's failed, nearly year-long siege of Chenzhou, whose defenders under Zhao Chou held until Li Keyong's relief army came.
Siege of Chernigov
The siege of Chernigov was the Mongol capture in autumn 1239 of the capital of the Chernigov principality, whose prince, Mstislav Glebovich, was defeated in battle before the walls.
Siege of Chernihiv
Siege of Chernihiv: Russian encirclement and bombardment of Chernihiv, Ukraine, February 24 to early April 2022; about 350 civilians reported killed, city held until Russian withdrawal.
Siege of Chihaya
The Siege of Chihaya (千早城の戦い) was a failed 1333 attempt by the Kamakura shogunate to capture Kusunoki Masashige's Chihaya Castle, whose small garrison held out for three months.
Siege of Chitradurga
The Siege of Chitradurga (ಚಿತ್ರದುರ್ಗ ಮುತ್ತಿಗೆ) was Haidar Ali of Mysore's capture of the hill fort of Chitradurga in Karnataka from Madakari Nayaka in 1779.
Siege of Chitral
The Siege of Chitral was the 1895 investment of Chitral fort by Chitrali and Pathan forces under Umra Khan and Sher Afzul, relieved on 20 April 1895.
Siege of Chittor (1303)
The Siege of Chittor (चित्तौड़ की घेराबंदी) was Alauddin Khalji's successful eight-month siege of the Guhila Rajput fortress of Chittorgarh in Mewar, which fell in August 1303.