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  • Thumbnail for Siege engine
    A siege engine is a device that is designed to break or circumvent heavy castle doors, thick city walls and other fortifications in siege warfare. Some...
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    hostage in the APA Building in Martin Place, Sydney, Australia. The Sydney siege led to a 16-hour standoff, after which a gunshot was heard from inside and police...
    184 KB (14,883 words) - 02:25, 16 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Siege of Leningrad
    The siege of Leningrad was a prolonged military siege undertaken by the Axis powers against the city of Leningrad (present-day Saint Petersburg) on the...
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  • Thumbnail for Siege of Antioch
    The siege of Antioch took place during the First Crusade in 1097 and 1098, on the crusaders' way to Jerusalem through Syria. Two sieges took place in...
    49 KB (6,215 words) - 17:03, 5 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of sieges of Gibraltar
    to lay siege to it instead; he abandoned the attempt after three months. Gibraltar lived in relative peace for over 200 years after the tenth siege,...
    35 KB (1,928 words) - 13:35, 3 September 2024
  • "The Siege of the North" is the two-part season finale of the first season of the American animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender, and...
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  • Thumbnail for Siege of Vicksburg
    The siege of Vicksburg (May 18 – July 4, 1863) was the final major military action in the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War. In a series of...
    50 KB (6,237 words) - 03:42, 18 December 2024
  • February 2018. The toy-line is split into three subline imprints titled "Siege", "Earthrise", and "Kingdom" respectively. All of the designs are based...
    25 KB (1,365 words) - 10:22, 12 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Siege of Tournai (1709)
    The siege of Tournai was a siege of the city of Tournai, then part of the Kingdom of France, between 28 June and 3 September 1709. A Grand Alliance army...
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    campaigns in the west and has been interpreted to refer to both the Battle of Carchemish and the Siege of Jerusalem (597 BC). The tablet is numbered ABC5...
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  • Thumbnail for Al-Shifa Hospital siege
    Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical complex in Gaza, was placed under siege by Israel in mid-November 2023 during the Israel–Hamas war, after saying...
    185 KB (17,072 words) - 00:12, 29 November 2024
  • to Osgiliath, which lay to the north-east of Minas Tirith. Except for the high saddle of rock which joined the west of the hill to Mindolluin, the city...
    27 KB (3,060 words) - 17:40, 20 October 2024
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    to remove Guru and his followers. Aurangzeb also dispatched the Governor of Peshwar to help lay siege. All were ordered to bring their full army to Anandpur...
    14 KB (1,116 words) - 12:24, 12 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Siege of Naarden (1673)
    The siege of Naarden took place from 6 to 13 September 1673 during the Franco-Dutch War of 1672 to 1678, when a Dutch army captured the Dutch fortress...
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  • Thumbnail for Siege of Quebec (1760)
    up the rest of his forces and began to prepare to lay siege to the city. The captured British artillery was added to the French guns brought from Montreal...
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  • and withdrew behind them, leaving the French force no options but to lay siege to the lines, or retreat. For three months the French encamped outside...
    8 KB (1,010 words) - 19:23, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Siege of Breteuil
    was to last 116 years. In 1346 Edward led an army across northern France, defeating the French at the Battle of Crécy and successfully laying siege to the...
    27 KB (3,530 words) - 00:05, 29 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Siege warfare in ancient Rome
    Siege in ancient Rome was one of the techniques used by the Roman army to achieve ultimate victory, although pitched battles were considered the only...
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  • Thumbnail for Siege of Petersburg
    to March 25, 1865, during the American Civil War. Although it is more popularly known as the siege of Petersburg, it was not a classic military siege...
    96 KB (13,068 words) - 08:55, 23 November 2024
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    stronghold in the Siege of Acre in 1291. After this loss of all Crusader territory in the Levant, there were no further substantive attempts to recover the...
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