- laid
siege to the Ottoman-held city of Taif, but the
Ottoman governor of Egypt,
Muhammad Ali Pasha,
successfully forced them
to raise the
siege. In 1814...
-
referred to as the
siege of
Little Washington.
After the
culmination of Burnside's
North Carolina Expedition little attention had been
given to North Carolina...
- the
approach of
a powerful Imperial army
to raise the
siege.
Under Charles's father,
Philip the Good,
Burgundy had
allied itself to the
cause of the...
-
heavy casualties, but the
British failed to capture the fort and were
eventually forced to raise the
siege. In the
early days of the War of 1812 (1812–1815)...
- The
siege of
Ankara was an
inconclusive siege of
Ankara by Timur. From Sivas, Timur's army
marched to Ankara in
twelve days. The lead
contingents of Timur's...
-
November – 30 December)
succeeded in
raising the
siege. The
Western Desert Campaign was
fought from
Mersa Matruh in
Egypt to Gazala in
Cyrenaica on the Libyan...
-
summoned to surrender but refused. The
siege began. The
besiegers tried to storm the walls, but failed. They then
resorted to starving Derry. They
raised the...
- force,
raising the
siege of the
Danubian fortress of
Nicopolis and
leading to the end of the
Second Bulgarian Empire. It is
often referred to as the Crusade...
-
three different contingents. Edward's
attempt to raise the
siege failed when he
found his path
blocked by
a smaller army
commanded by Bruce. The Scottish...
- then
raised the
siege of London,
which had been
successfully resisted by the citizens, and
defeated the
Danes near Brentford. They
renewed the
siege while...
