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Siege of		Location	War	When
Saragossa, 1st		Spain	Peninsular War	1808	First French attempt to take Zaragoza that ended in failure.
Saragossa, 2nd		Spain	Peninsular War	1808 - 1809	Second attempt for the French army to take the Spanish city of Zaragoza, it is widely considered one of the most brutal battles in the history of Napoleonic warfare.
Girona		Catalonia	Peninsular War	1808 - 1809
Ciudad Rodrigo, 1st		Spain	Peninsular War	1810	French marshal Michel Ney took the fortified town after a 24-day siege.
Ciudad Rodrigo, 2nd		Spain	Peninsular War	1812	British general Wellington prepared for 10 days before taking the town overnight.
Badajoz		Spain	Peninsular War	1812	Wellingtons next large capture was the city of Badajoz, defeating a French army garrisoned inside after some 20 days of fighting. Casualties were high at approx. 6,500 dead soldiers.
Missolonghi, 1st		Greece	Greek War of Independence	1824	In an attempt to take the city from the rebellious Greeks, the Ottoman navy tried to cut of supply lines from the sea to Missolonghi while the infantry and artillery troops bombarded the walls. They were not successfull and retreated in 1824.
Missolonghi, 2nd		Greece	Greek War of Independence	1825	After the death of Lord Byron, who had a decisive role as a defender in the first siege, the Turks came to besiege the Greek city again. The situation turned desperate for the defenders and they attempted to escape. The escape was discovered, and most Greeks were slaughtered and the city was taken.
The Alamo		San Antonio, Texas	Texas Revolution	1836	Texian forces failed attempt at defending the Alamo against the Mexican forces. The Mexicans were unable to take the mission building for 13 days. The holdup of the Mexican forces allowed Sam Houston to gather troop and supplies for the battle at San Jacinto. The Texians were wastly outnumbered, with about 230 defenders holding off 1,800 attackers.
Veracruz		Veracruz, Mexico	Mexican-American War	1847	THe U.S attack on Veracruz was the first U.S amphibious landing. The Mexican defenders were forced to surrender after 20 days of siege.
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky		Russia	Crimean War	1854	A combined French and English fleet of 6 ships anchored in Avacha Bay, facing the 218 canons towards the city. The Russian defenders had 67 cannons at their disposal. After two attacks being repelled by the Russians, who were outnumbered, the squadron was commanded to leave Russian waters.
Taganrog		Russia	Crimean War	1855	Three attempts were made by the English French troops to take the seaport before they gave up and withdrew. The city was left in ruins after the attempts, and the czar Alexander II exempted the city from taxes for a year to allow it to be rebuilt.
Kars		Turkey	Crimean War	1855	The siege of Kars was the last major operation of the Crimean War. The Russian attack and siege of Kars lasted around 5 months, and the starved city surrendered. The Russian general Muravyov renamed the city to Muravyov-Karssky.
Sevastopol		Russia	Crimean War	1854-1855	A French British assault ended in Russian defeat. The battles were heavy, and casualties enourmous. Out of 55,000 French and British troops, about 50,000 perished. Out of 35,000 Russian troops only 15,000 survived.
Cawnpore		India	Indian Mutiny	1857	The Indian rebellion was sanctioned by the local indian prince, Nana Sahib. Initially the Indians overtook Cownpore from the brittish troops, and during the brittish flight some were left behind. These were massacred by Nana Sahib and his troops. The surviving brittish loyals were massacred in a gruesome event where women and children were hacked to pieces and thrown down a well. The British eventually regained control, and the sepoys captured were forced to lick the bloodstains of the massacred from the walls.
Lucknow		India	Indian Mutiny	1857	The siege of Lucknow was a prolonged defence by the British of the town. The first siege lasted 87 days and the second 61 days. Lucknow was lost to Indian rebels but regained in 1858.
Medina Fort		Senegal		1857	The Medina Fort siege took place near Kayes modern-day Mali, when the Toucouleur forces of al-Hajj Umar Taal unsuccessfully besieged French colonial troops under General Louis Faidherbe, governor of Senegal.
Vicksburg		Mississippi, U.S.A	American Civil War	1863	The confederates were driven back to Vicksburg by General Ulysses S. Grant. The confederates surrendered 6 weeks later after suffering 9,000 casualties.
Port Hudson		Louisiana, U.S.A	American Civil War	1863	In July, the confederates surrendered Port Hudson to Captain Thornton A. Jenkins. The surrender gave the Union control of Mississippi river, cuting off routes to important federate states such as Texas and Arkansas.
Petersburg		Virginia, U.S.A	American Civil War	1864 - 1865	Union forces commanded by Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant assaulted Petersburg unsuccessfully and then constructed trench lines that eventually extended over 30 miles around the eastern and southern outskirts of the city. Gen. Robert E. Lee's army was forced to abandon the city.
Hakodate		Japan	Boshin War	1869	The siege took place in the star fort Goryōkaku. A handful of French soldiers led by Jules Brunet, a military adviser for the shogunate army, joined the rebellion led by Enomoto Takeaki against goverment forces. They were eventually forced to surrender the fort.
Paris		France	Franco-Prussian War	1870-1871	The 4 month siege ended in a German victory. von Bismarck, Prussia's prime minister, initially suggested a shelling of Paris for a quick surrender. The German high command turned down the suggestion since it would turn the opinion of third parties against the germans. In the end the city was bombarded with siege guns forcing its surrender.
Cartagena, Murcia		Spain		1873-1874
Khartoum	File:Gordonssistastrid.jpg	Sudan	Mahdist War	1884-1885	General Gordon refused orders by the Brittish goverment to leave Khartoum. He stated he felt honor-bound to protect the city. He had fortified the town and developed gunboats out of small paddle-wheel steamers to protect the two riverbanks of the Blue Nile and the White Nile. The Mahdist conquered the city after anihilating the combined brittish and egyptian forces.
Mafeking		South Africa	Second Boer War	1899-1900	Being the most famous British action in the Second Boer War. It took place at the town of Mafeking in South Africa over a period of 217 days, from October 1899 to May 1900, and turned Robert Baden-Powell, who went on to found the scouting movement, into a national hero. The lifting of the Siege of Mafeking was a decisive victory for the British and a crushing defeat for the Boers.
Port Arthur	File:RusShellJapanLine1905.jpg	Lüshunkou, China	Russo-Japanese War	1904-1905	Then known as Port Arthur was a Russian naval base, considered to be the strongest fortifications of its time. The siege saw the use of advanced warfare technology, such as howitzers, electric fences and poison gas. After 90,000 combined casualties, it ended in a japanese victory.
Antwerp		Antwerp, Belgium	World War I	1914-1918	German invasion of Belgium caused the ill prepared Belgian troops to rally at Antwerp by the kings order in late August of 1914. The mayor of Antwerp offered capitulation on October 10th, 1914.