Society and history

Capture of Jerusalem by David

The capture of Jerusalem by David is the event, told in 2 Samuel 5:6-10, in which David took the Jebusite stronghold of Zion and made it his capital around 1000 BCE.

Capture of Jugurtha

The capture of Jugurtha was the seizure of Jugurtha, king of Numidia, by his ally Bocchus I of Mauretania, who handed him to Sulla in 106 BC, ending the Jugurthine War.

Capture of Kalinjar (1203)

The Capture of Kalinjar (قلعہ کالنجر کی فتح) was the 1202–03 storming of the Kalinjar hill fort in Bundelkhand by the Ghurid general Qutb al-Din Aibak.

Capture of Kannauj by Nagabhata II

The capture of Kannauj by Nagabhata II was the seizure of Kannauj around 816 by the Gurjara-Pratihara king Nagabhata II, who defeated Chakrayudha and made the city his capital.

The Capture of Karak (فتح الكرك) was the 1263 takeover of the fortress city of Karak in southern Jordan by the Mamluk sultan al-Zahir Baybars, ending Ayyubid rule and incorporating Karak into the Mamluk sultanate.

Capture of Lahore

The Capture of Lahore was the seizure of the Punjab's capital by Ranjit Singh from the Bhangi sardars in early July 1799, laying the foundation of Sikh monarchy.

Capture of Lahore (1765)

The Capture of Lahore (ख़ालसा का लाहौर पर अधिकार) took place on 16 April 1765, when Sikh sardars Lehna Singh, Gujjar Singh, and Sobha Singh seized the city from governor Kabuli Mal.

Capture of Larsa by Hammurabi

The capture of Larsa, also called the fall of Larsa, was Hammurabi of Babylon's 1763 BC defeat of King Rim-Sin I, after which he annexed the Larsa kingdom and united southern Mesopotamia under Babylonian rule.

Capture of Lugalzagesi by Sargon

The capture of Lugalzagesi by Sargon, dated c. 2334 BC, was Sargon of Akkad's defeat of the king of Uruk, whom he paraded in a neck stock to the gate of Enlil.

Capture of Malacca

The Capture of Malacca (Penaklukan Melaka oleh Portugis) was the seizure of Malacca, capital of the Malacca Sultanate, by a Portuguese fleet under Afonso de Albuquerque in 1511.

Capture of Martinique (1762)

The Capture of Martinique in 1762 was a British amphibious operation of the Seven Years' War in which forces under Monckton took the rich French sugar island.

Capture of Messana by the Mamertines

The capture of Messana by the Mamertines, also known as the Mamertine seizure of Messana, was the seizure of Messana in Sicily by Campanian mercenaries in the 280s BC.

Capture of Muscat (1507)

The Capture of Muscat was the 1507 storming of the Omani port of Muscat by a Portuguese fleet under Afonso de Albuquerque, which sacked the town and ruled the coast until 1650.

Capture of New Carthage (209 BC)

The capture of New Carthage, or Battle of New Carthage, was the taking of Carthago Nova by Scipio in 209 BC during the Second Punic War.

Capture of Oaxaca

The Capture of Oaxaca was the taking of the city of Antequera, today Oaxaca de Juárez, by José María Morelos's insurgent army on 25 November 1812, during the Mexican War of Independence.

Capture of Paris

The Capture of Paris (Взятие Парижа) was the final battle of the 1814 Napoleonic campaign, in which coalition armies under Alexander I stormed the French capital.

Capture of Peshawar (1834)

The capture of Peshawar in 1834 was the seizure of the city by the Sikh Empire of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, occupied by the general Hari Singh Nalwa.

Capture of Pyongyang

The capture of Pyongyang was the seizure of North Korea's capital by UN and South Korean forces on 19 October 1950, five weeks after the Inchon landing.

Capture of Riyadh

The Capture of Riyadh (استرداد الرياض) was the storming of Riyadh on 15 January 1902 by Abdulaziz ibn Abdul Rahman Al Saud, who took it from its Rashidi governor.

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Capture of Rome

Capture of Rome (Presa di Roma): 20 September 1870 entry of Cadorna's Italian army through the Breach of Porta Pia, ending the Papal States and completing Italian unification; Pius IX became the 'prisoner' of the Vatican until the 1929 Lateran Pacts.

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Capture of Saddam Hussein

The capture of Saddam Hussein was his bloodless seizure by US forces at a farm near Tikrit, Iraq, on December 13, 2003, in Operation Red Dawn.

Capture of Safi

The Capture of Safi (فتح آسفي) was the recovery of the Atlantic port of Safi in western Morocco from the Portuguese by the Saadian dynasty in October 1541.

Capture of Saigon (1859)

The Capture of Saigon (Chiếm Gia Định 1859) was the seizure of the Gia Dinh citadel by a Franco-Spanish expedition under Admiral Rigault de Genouilly on 17 February 1859.

Capture of Sanjar by the Ghuzz

The Capture of Sanjar by the Ghuzz (أسر سنجار على يد الغز) was the defeat and capture of Seljuk sultan Ahmad Sanjar by Oghuz Turkmen tribesmen in 1153.

Capture of Sanjar by the Oghuz

The capture of Sanjar by the Oghuz (اسارت سلطان سنجر) was the capture and imprisonment of Sultan Ahmad Sanjar of the Great Seljuk Empire by rebellious Oghuz Turkmen in 1153.

Capture of Shamil

The capture of Shamil (Şeyh Şâmil) was the surrender of the leader of the Caucasian Imamate to the Russian army at Gunib, Dagestan, in 1859.

Capture of Sint Eustatius

The Capture of Sint Eustatius was the seizure of the Dutch Caribbean island by British forces under General John Vaughan and Admiral George Rodney on 3 February 1781.

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Capture of Southern Naval Base

Capture of Southern Naval Base: Russia's March 2014 seizure of Ukraine's Southern Naval Base on Lake Donuzlav, Crimea, sealed by scuttling the Ochakov and three support vessels across the channel, trapping the Ukrainian ships stationed there.

Capture of Syphax

The capture of Syphax was the seizure in 203 BC of Syphax, king of the Numidian Masaesyli, by Gaius Laelius and Masinissa after his defeat near Cirta.