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Siege of Dongnae
The Siege of Dongnae, also called the Battle of Dongnae, was a 1592 battle of the Imjin War in which Japanese forces took Dongnae fortress in Busan.
Siege of Drégely
The siege of Drégely was a July 1552 action in which Ottoman forces stormed the Hungarian border castle, killing Captain György Szondi and his entire garrison.
Siege of Drepana
The Siege of Drepana was the Roman blockade of Carthage's fortress and naval base at Drepana, western Sicily, during the final years of the First Punic War.
Siege of Dubrovnik
Siege of Dubrovnik: JNA encirclement and shelling of the Croatian city, October to December 1991, including the 6 December attack on the UNESCO Old Town; ICTY convicted generals Strugar and Jokić.
Siege of Eastern Ghouta
Siege of Eastern Ghouta: Syrian government encirclement of a 100 km² rebel enclave of 400,000 people near Damascus, April 2013 to April 2018, the longest siege in modern history, marked by starvation, the 2013 sarin attack, and the 2018 offensive.
Siege of Eger (1552)
The Siege of Eger was a failed 1552 Ottoman attack on the Hungarian fortress of Eger, where about 2,000 defenders under István Dobó repelled a much larger army.
Siege of Ekron
The siege of Ekron in 701 BC was Sennacherib of Assyria's suppression of a revolt in the Philistine city of Ekron, whose people had deposed King Padi.
Siege of Eryx (278 BC)
The siege of Eryx was the storming of the Carthaginian-held fortress of Eryx in western Sicily by Pyrrhus of Epirus in 278/277 BC, who led the assault in person.
Siege of Eshowe
The Siege of Eshowe was the investment of Colonel Pearson's British column of about 1,300 men at the KwaMondi mission, Zululand, from January to April 1879 in the Anglo-Zulu War.
Siege of Esztergom
The siege of Esztergom was a Mongol assault in 1242 on the Hungarian royal city of Esztergom, which took the lower city but not its citadel.
Siege of Fengtian
The Siege of Fengtian (奉天之难) was the siege of the town of Fengtian by the rebel Zhu Ci, whose assaults were turned back by imperial forces under Hun Jian.
Siege of Fez (1911)
The siege of Fez was an uprising of Moroccan tribes against Sultan Abd el Hafid from March to May 1911, ended by a French relief force.
Siege of Fort Detroit
The Siege of Fort Detroit was a failed five-month siege in 1763, in which Pontiac's Odawa-led warriors tried but could not take the British fort at Detroit.
Siege of Fort Jesus
The Siege of Fort Jesus was a 1696 to 1698 siege of the Portuguese fortress at Mombasa by Omani forces under Imam Saif bin Sultan.
Siege of Fort Medina
The Siege of Fort Medina was the failed 1857 Toucouleur siege of the French fort of Medine on the upper Senegal River, lifted by Louis Faidherbe's relief force.
Siege of Fort Zeelandia
The Siege of Fort Zeelandia (郑成功收复台湾) was the 1661 to 1662 campaign in which Koxinga defeated the Dutch East India Company and ended Dutch rule in Taiwan.
Siege of Fushimi Castle
The Siege of Fushimi Castle (伏見城の戦い) was the opening engagement of the Sekigahara campaign, fought at Fushimi Castle south of Kyoto in 1600, where Ishida Mitsunari's Western Army captured the castle from Tokugawa defender Torii Mototada.
Siege of Gassan-Toda
The siege of Gassan-Toda (月山富田城の戦い) of 1542–1543 was a failed invasion of Izumo Province in which Ōuchi Yoshitaka withdrew after over a year against Amago Haruhisa's castle.
Siege of Gath by Hazael
Hazael's capture of Gath was the siege and capture of the Philistine city of Gath by Hazael, king of Aram-Damascus, around 830 BCE, recorded in 2 Kings 12:17-19.
Siege of Gawilghur
The Siege of Gawilghur (गाविलगडचा वेढा) was the storming of the hill fort of Gawilghur in Berar by British forces under Arthur Wellesley in December 1803.
Siege of Gaza City
Siege of Gaza City: encirclement and isolation of Gaza City, largest Gaza Strip city, by Israel after the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack; total siege, evacuation orders, Shifa Hospital collapse, and 2025 renewed offensive before the October 2025 ceasefire.
Siege of Geok-Tepe
The Siege of Geok-Tepe (Взятие Геок-Тепе) was the storming of the Tekke Turkmen fortress at Dengil-Tepe by Russian forces under General Skobelev in January 1881.
Siege of Golconda
The Siege of Golconda (محاصرہ گولکنڈہ) was an eight-month Mughal siege of the Qutb Shahi capital fort at Golconda, near Hyderabad, ending in September 1687.
Siege of Gulbarga
The Siege of Gulbarga (गुलबर्गा) was Krishnadevaraya of Vijayanagara's capture of Gulbarga fort after taking Raichur in 1512; he defeated Barid-i-Mamalik and restored Sultan Mahmud Shah as a dependent ruler.
Siege of Gunib
The Siege of Gunib was an 1859 Russian assault in Dagestan that ended the Caucasian War when Imam Shamil surrendered to Prince Baryatinsky on 25 August.
Siege of Gurdas Nangal
The Siege of Gurdas Nangal (ਗੁਰਦਾਸ ਨੰਗਲ ਦੀ ਘੇਰਾਬੰਦੀ) was the eight-month Mughal encirclement of Banda Singh Bahadur at Gurdas Nangal, Punjab, ending with his capture in December 1715.
Siege of Gurganj
The siege of Gurganj, also spelled Urgench, was the Mongols' hardest battle of their 1220–1221 invasion of Khwarazm, ending in the capital's fall and massacre.
Siege of Haarlem
Siege of Haarlem (December 1572 to 13 July 1573): seven-month Spanish siege under Don Frederik during the Dutch Revolt. City surrendered after the Battle of Haarlemmermeer cut supply; 1,700 executed, 240,000 gulden paid to avoid plunder.
Siege of Hachigata
The Siege of Hachigata (鉢形城の戦い) was a month-long 1590 siege of Hachigata Castle in present-day Yorii, Saitama, during Toyotomi Hideyoshi's campaign against the Late Hojo clan.
Siege of Hachioji Castle
The Siege of Hachioji Castle was a 1590 assault in which Toyotomi forces under Maeda Toshiie destroyed Hōjō Ujiteru's mountain stronghold in a single day.