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Siege of Veracruz
The Siege of Veracruz was the U.S. Army's March 1847 amphibious landing, siege, and bombardment of Mexico's principal Gulf port during the Mexican-American War, led by Winfield Scott.
Siege of Vicksburg
Siege of Vicksburg (May-July 4, 1863): Grant besieged Pemberton's Confederate garrison at Vicksburg, Mississippi, after failed May 19 and 22 assaults; the city's July 4 surrender split the Confederacy and opened the Mississippi River.
Siege of Vienna (1485)
Siege of Vienna (1485): capture of Vienna by Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, 29 January to 1 June 1485, during his war with Frederick III; Vienna stayed Hungarian until 1490.
Siege of Vladimir
The Siege of Vladimir was the capture of Vladimir, capital of the principality of Vladimir-Suzdal, by Batu Khan's Mongol army in February 1238, during the Great Western Campaign.
Siege of Warsaw (1939)
Siege of Warsaw (1939): German encirclement and bombardment of the Polish capital, 8–27 September 1939, also called the Attack on Warsaw (Angriff auf Warschau). Over 120,000 defenders under Juliusz Rómmel capitulated after Luftwaffe and artillery bombardment killed about 26,000 civilians.
Siege of Wonsan
The Siege of Wonsan was a UN naval blockade and bombardment of the North Korean port of Wonsan during the Korean War, the longest naval blockade in modern history.
Siege of Yangzhou (1276)
The siege of Yangzhou was a Mongol Yuan siege of the Southern Song stronghold of Yangzhou from February 1275 to mid-1276, long after the capital Lin'an fell.
Siege of Yorktown
Siege of Yorktown (September 28 - October 19, 1781), the last major battle of the American Revolutionary War, where Washington, Rochambeau, and de Grasse's French fleet trapped Cornwallis's 8,300-man army and forced its surrender.
Siege of Yoshida-Kōriyama Castle
The Siege of Yoshida-Kōriyama Castle (吉田郡山城の戦い), also called the Kōriyama campaign, was a 1540 to 1541 Sengoku battle where Mōri Motonari, aided by Ōuchi reinforcements, repelled the Amago clan.
Siege of Zaatcha
The Siege of Zaatcha (الزعاطشة), from July to November 1849, was a French operation against an oasis town near Biskra, Algeria, ending with the massacre of its population and resistance leader Sheikh Bouzian.
Siege of Zamość (1648)
The Siege of Zamość (1648) was an unsuccessful siege of the fortress town of Zamość by Bohdan Khmelnytsky's Cossack-Tatar army during the 1648 Cossack uprising.
Sieges during the Syrian civil war
Sieges during the Syrian civil war were the sustained encirclement of towns by armed actors to cut off food, medicine, and civilians' movement, mostly by the Syrian state.
Siegfried Lederer's escape from Auschwitz
Siegfried (Vítězslav) Lederer's escape from Auschwitz: on 5 April 1944 the Czech Jewish prisoner fled the Theresienstadt family camp in an SS uniform aided by guard Viktor Pestek, warned Theresienstadt, sent a report to the Red Cross, and survived the war.
Siegfried Sassoon
Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967), English poet, memoirist, and Royal Welch Fusiliers officer, famous for anti-war poems like Counter-Attack, his 1917 Soldier's Declaration, the Military Cross he later rejected, and his mentorship of Wilfred Owen at Craiglockhart.
Sierra Leone Civil War
The Sierra Leone Civil War (1991-2002) pitted the government against the RUF rebels backed by Charles Taylor's Liberia, killed about 50,000 people, displaced over 2 million, and ended with the Lomé Accord, a Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the Special Court that convicted Taylor.
Sihanouk Trail
The Sihanouk Trail was a supply network in Cambodia used by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces during the Vietnam War, closed after the 1970 coup.
Sikh Empire
Sikh Empire, also called the Sikh Kingdom or Lahore State, was the northwestern South Asian state founded by Ranjit Singh from the Sikh misls, spanning Punjab, Kashmir, and parts of Afghanistan and Tibet, until British annexation in 1849.
Silang Revolt
The Silang Revolt, also known as the Ilocos Revolt, was an Ilocano uprising against Spanish rule in northern Luzon led by Diego Silang from 1762 to 1763.
Silko's war against the Blemmyes
Silko's war against the Blemmyes was a series of fifth-century campaigns in which Silko, king of the Nobades, defeated the Blemmyes and united Lower Nubia.
Simba rebellion
The Simba rebellion was a large 1964 and 1965 uprising in the Congo, led by leftist rebels called Simbas seeking to overthrow the pro-Western central government.
Simon Wiesenthal
Simon Wiesenthal (1908–2005), Austrian Holocaust survivor and architectural engineer, founded documentation centers in Linz and Vienna and provided leads on Nazi criminals including Eichmann, Stangl, Silberbauer, and Braunsteiner Ryan.
Simone Segouin
Simone Segouin, codename Nicole Minet (1925-2023), French Resistance fighter with the Francs-Tireurs et Partisans; famous 1944 Chartres photograph with captured MP-40, captured 24 Waffen-SS soldiers, Croix de guerre recipient.
Sinai insurgency
The Sinai insurgency is an armed conflict in North Sinai, Egypt, between Egyptian forces and jihadist groups, chiefly Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, which became ISIS's Sinai Province in 2014, marked by the 2015 Russian airliner bombing and the 2017 al-Rawda Mosque massacre and largely suppressed by 2023.
Singapore Airlines Flight 321
Singapore Airlines Flight SQ321, London to Singapore Boeing 777-300ER, hit extreme convective turbulence over Myanmar on 21 May 2024 at 37,000 ft, killing one and injuring 79 before diverting to Bangkok.
Sinjar massacre
Sinjar massacre: ISIS assault on Yazidis in Sinjar, Iraq, from August 3, 2014 (also called Shingal genocide); thousands killed, thousands abducted, later recognized by UN investigations as genocide against the Yazidi.
Sinking of ARA General Belgrano
The Sinking of ARA General Belgrano: 2 May 1982 torpedoing of the Argentine cruiser (ex-USS Phoenix, 13,645 tons) by HMS Conqueror outside the exclusion zone; 323 of 1,093 crew died, 770 survived, and the Argentine fleet withdrew to port afterward.
Sinking of HMAS Sydney
The sinking of HMAS Sydney was the loss of the Australian light cruiser with all 645 aboard on 19 November 1941, in a mutually destructive battle with the disguised German raider Kormoran off Western Australia.
Sinking of IRIS Dena
Sinking of IRIS Dena: Iranian Moudge-class frigate torpedoed by the US submarine USS Charlotte on 4 March 2026 off Galle, Sri Lanka; 87 dead, 32 rescued, first US submarine sinking since World War II.
Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse
The Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse was the 1941 loss of two British capital ships off Malaya. They were the first capital ships sunk by Japanese land-based aircraft on the open sea.
Sinking of the ferry Neptune
The sinking of the ferry Neptune was a 1993 maritime disaster off Miragoâne, Haiti, in which an overloaded ferry capsized, drowning hundreds to over a thousand people.