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This category includes historical sieges in which United Kingdom (1801–Present) participated. Please see the category guidelines for more information.. For sieges before 1707, see Category:Sieges involving England.
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Siege of San Fiorenzo; Siege of Savage's Old Fields; Siege of Seringapatam (1792) Obelisk Monument; Siege of Seringapatam (1799) Siege of Carlisle (December 1745) Siege of St. Augustine (1740) Siege of Stirling Castle (1746)
Siege of Saint-Denis (1435) Siege of Saint-Martin-de-Ré; Siege of Santo Domingo (1655) Siege of Schenckenschans (1599) Siege of Schoonhoven (1575) Siege of Boulogne (1492) Siege of Caen (1417) Siege of Dundee; Siege of Glin Castle; Siege of Paris (1435–1436) Siege of Sluis (1587) Siege of Sluis (1604) Siege of St. Augustine (1702) Siege of ...
British troops at the Plaza Vieja during their occupation of Havana. During the siege the British had lost 2,764 killed, wounded, captured or deserted, [4] but by 18 October also had lost 4,708 dead from sickness. [101] One of the most depleted brigades was transferred to North America where it lost a further 360 men within a month of arrival.
The siege of Port Royal (5–13 October 1710), [n 1] also known as the Conquest of Acadia, [4] was a military siege conducted by British regular and provincial forces under the command of Francis Nicholson against a French Acadian garrison and the Wabanaki Confederacy [5] under the command of Daniel d'Auger de Subercase, at the Acadian capital, Port Royal.
'Siege of Cartagena de Indias') took place during the 1739 to 1748 War of Jenkins' Ear between Spain and Great Britain. The result of long-standing commercial tensions, the war was primarily fought in the Caribbean ; the British tried to capture key Spanish ports in the region, including Porto Bello and Chagres in Panama, Havana , and Cartagena ...
The allied army, some 27,000 [2] strong, outnumbered the French garrison by around five to one and after encircling the town on 17 March 1812, began to lay siege by preparing trenches, parallels and earthworks to protect the heavy siege artillery, work made difficult by a week of prolonged and torrential rainfalls, which also swept away bridging works that were needed to bring the heavy cannon ...