Siege

1453

5/29 — Caída de Constantinopla: Los ejércitos otomanos bajo el sultán Mehmed II Fatih capturan Constantinopla después de un asedio de 53 días, terminando con el Imperio bizantino.

1836

3/6 — Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo - After a thirteen-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.

1863

11/17 — Guerra Civil Americana: Comienza el asedio de Knoxville: las fuerzas confederadas al mando del General James Longstreet sitian a Knoxville, Tennessee.

1864

9/1 — Guerra Civil Americana: El general del Ejército Confederado John Bell Hood ordena la evacuación de Atlanta, finalizando un asedio de cuatro meses por parte del general William Tecumseh Sherman.

456

9/17 — Remistus, Roman general (magister militum), is besieged by a Gothic force at Ravenna and later executed in the Palace in Classis, outside the city.

493

2/25 — Odoacer surrenders Ravenna after a 3-year siege and agrees to a mediated peace with Theoderic the Great.

537

3/2 — Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoth army under king Vitiges begins the siege of the capital. Belisarius conducts a delaying action outside the Flaminian Gate; he and a detachment of his bucellarii are almost cut off.

598

3/30 — Balkan Campaign: The Avars lift the siege at the Byzantine stronghold of Tomis. Their leader Bayan I retreats north of the Danube River after the Avaro-Slavic hordes are decimated by the plague.

627

3/31 — Battle of the Trench: Muhammad undergoes a 14-day siege at Medina (Saudi Arabia) by Meccan forces under Abu Sufyan.

649

1/19 — Conquista de Kucha: Las fuerzas de Kucha se rinden después de un asedio de cuarenta días liderado por el general de la dinastía Tang Ashina She'er, estableciendo el control de Tang sobre el norteño Bósque de Tarim en Xinjiang.

801

4/3 — King Louis the Pious captures Barcelona from the Moors after a siege of several months.

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