• American Siege is a 2022 American action film written and directed by Edward Drake. It stars Timothy V. Murphy, Bruce Willis, Rob Gough, Johann Urb, Anna...
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    A siege (Latin: sedere, lit. 'to sit') is a military blockade of a city, or fortress, with the intent of conquering by attrition, or by well-prepared...
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    1865, during the American Civil War. Although it is more popularly known as the Siege of Petersburg, it was not a classic military siege, in which a city...
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  • The Siege is a 1998 American action thriller film directed by Edward Zwick. The film is about a fictional situation in which terrorist cells have made...
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    Charles Henri Hector, Count of Estaing (category French military personnel of the American Revolutionary War)
    into the American War of Independence in 1778, d'Estaing led a fleet to aid the American rebels. He participated in a failed Franco-American siege of Newport...
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  • titled Ruby Ridge: An American Tragedy on May 19 and May 21, 1996. The miniseries was edited together to become the film The Siege at Ruby Ridge. Laura...
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  • 2001–current Naval Sieges See also A chronological list of sieges follows. Siege of Aratta (c. 2600 BC) this siege is semi or entirely mythical. Siege of Uruk (c...
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    December 31, 1775, between American Continental Army forces and the British defenders of Quebec City early in the American Revolutionary War. The battle...
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    The Siege of Leningrad was a prolonged military siege undertaken by the Axis powers against the Soviet city of Leningrad (present-day Saint Petersburg)...
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    Lake Champlain (category Use American English from July 2022)
    Forts Ticonderoga and Crown Point, the Americans began planning an attack on British Canada. The American siege of Quebec was a two-pronged assault and...
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  • Waco: American Apocalypse is an American documentary television miniseries about the Waco siege in 1993 between the US federal government and the Branch...
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    Siege artillery is heavy artillery primarily used in military attacks on fortified positions. At the time of the American Civil War, the U.S. Army classified...
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    Charles Cornwallis. The siege of Yorktown was the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War in North America, and led to the surrender...
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  • A Dungeon Siege Tale (also known as Dungeon Siege: In the Name of the King, or simply In the Name of the King), is a 2007 German-American action-fantasy...
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    The Siege of Savannah or the Second Battle of Savannah was an encounter of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) in 1779. The year before, the city...
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    The Siege of Charleston was a major engagement and major British victory in the American Revolutionary War, fought in the environs of Charles Town (today...
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    several sieges during the mid-18th century, with British forces holding out in the walled city during the French siege of Quebec in 1760, and the American siege...
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  • of sieges, see list of sieges. Siege, The Siege, Besiege or Besieged may also refer to: The Siege (Dunmore novel), by Helen Dunmore, 2001 The Siege (Kadare...
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  • the American Revolutionary War The 1779 American Siege of Savannah during the American Revolution Closing Savannah as a port following the Siege of Fort...
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  • Under Siege is a 1992 action thriller film directed by Andrew Davis from a screenplay by J. F. Lawton. It stars Steven Seagal (who also produced the film)...
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    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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    The Siege of Boston (April 19, 1775 – March 17, 1776) was the opening phase of the American Revolutionary War. In the siege, American patriot militia...
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    A Roman siege tower or breaching tower (or in the Middle Ages, a belfry) is a specialized siege engine, constructed to protect assailants and ladders...
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    The Great Siege of Gibraltar was an unsuccessful attempt by Spain and France to capture Gibraltar from the British during the American Revolutionary War...
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    The siege of the International Legations was a pivotal event during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, in which foreign diplomatic compounds in Peking (now...
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    The Waco siege, also known as the Waco massacre, was the siege by U.S. federal government and Texas state law enforcement officials of a compound belonging...
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    The Great Siege of Malta (Maltese: L-Assedju l-Kbir) occurred in 1565 when the Ottoman Empire attempted to conquer the island of Malta, then held by the...
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  • Silverton Siege is a South African film directed by Mandla Dube. It is based on the real life siege that took place in Silverton, Pretoria in 1980. The...
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    The Siege of Przemyśl was the longest siege in Europe during the First World War. The siege was a crushing defeat of the Austro-Hungarian Army by the...
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  • S.W.A.T.: Under Siege is a 2017 American action film directed by Tony Giglio. It is the third installment of the S.W.A.T. film series and was released...
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