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An artist's impression of what the Roman siege of Carthage may have looked like during the Third Punic War, 149-146 BCE.

The Third Punic War was fought between Carthage and Rome between 149 and 146 BCE. Carthage had already lost two wars against Rome, but their assault on their Numidian neighbours gave the Romans the perfect excuse to crush this...

The Battle of Hondschoote, fought on 6-8 September 1793, was a major turning point in the Flanders Campaign of 1792-1795 during the French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802). An army of the First French Republic defeated an Anglo-Hanoverian...

A map showing the Siege of Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) during Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the USSR launched by the leader of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) in the Second World War (1939-45). The siege...

Architrave of seven kings laying siege to Kushinagara, photograph by Biswarup Ganguly, 2013. Located in Sanchi, Madhya Pradesh, India, at the Sanchi Stupa Buddhist complex, this architrave depicts seven kings...

A siege mortar nicknamed the "Dictator," used by the Union army during the Siege of Petersburg in the American Civil War, photograph in The Photographic History of The Civil War in Ten Volumes: Volume Three...

Sennacherib (r. 705-681 BCE) was the second king of the Sargonid Dynasty of Assyria (founded by his father Sargon II, r. 722-705 BCE). He is one of the most famous Assyrian kings owing to the part he plays in narratives in the biblical...

An artist's rendition of what a siege attack may have looked like in the ancient world.

An early 17th-century illustration by Johann Jacob von Wallhausen showing the tactics of batteries of siege artillery to fire upon a specific point in the defensive fortifications.

The Americans storm the British position at redoubt 10 during the Siege of Yorktown (28 September to 19 October 1781). By Eugène Lami, 1840.