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The British did damage to the extent of two million pounds to the besiegers: fourteen months of work by the Spanish and a considerable quantity of ammunition had been destroyed. British troops and pioneers spiked ten 13-inch mortars and eighteen 26-pounder guns in the Spanish siege works.
The siege of Boston (April 19, 1775 – March 17, 1776) was the opening phase of the American Revolutionary War. [5] In the siege, American patriot militia led by newly-installed Continental Army commander George Washington prevented the British Army, which was garrisoned in Boston, from moving by land. Both sides faced resource, supply, and ...
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All of the British guns on the left were soon silenced. The British soldiers began to pitch their tents in their trenches and soldiers began to desert in large numbers. [44] Some British ships were also damaged by cannonballs that flew across the town into the harbor. [44] On October 10, the Americans spotted a large house in Yorktown. [45]
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.
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 St. John's; Siege of Steenwijk (1580–1581) Siege of ...
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)