The Siege of Khartoum, 1885. Muslim Religious Zeal Cracks the British Empire. British-Muslim Policy Established.

The Siege of Bilbao, 1937. Basque Culture Systematically Erased. Hitler Helps Spain in a Preview of WWII Atrocities and Experiments.

The Siege of The Alamo, 1836. The Violent Slaughter that made modern America. Heroic Last Stand.

The Siege of Sevastopol, WWII 1941-42. The Largest Military Invasion in Recorded History.

The Siege of Khe Sanh, 1968. The Killing Stroke of Communist Vietnam's Final Major Offensive.

The Siege of Fort Stanwix, American Revolution. 1777. Where an Insurrection Turn into a Revolution.

The Viking Siege of Paris, 886 AD. Just 200 Parisian Men Held Paris Against 30,000 Vikings.

The Siege of Plataea, 429-427 BC. First Recorded Use of Chemical Warfare. Executions. Collapse of Hellenistic Honor.

The Siege of Stalingrad, 1943. Hitler's Critical Error.

The Siege of Boulogne, 1544. The Collapse of a Throne Built on Defiance.

The Siege of Basra, 1982-87. Chemical Warfare. Nerve Gas. A Million Casualties.

The Siege of Badajoz, 1812. Total Carnage, Absolute Gore. Napoleon's Spanish Divisions Decimated by Wellington.

The Siege of Gibraltar, 1779- 1783. The Longest Siege in British History. Key to WWII Centuries Later.

The Siege of Carthage, 146 BC. Rome Annihilates an Entire Civilization. A General Shames Himself Before his Wife.

The Siege of Vicksburg, 1863. The Death Knell Moment of the Rebellion. The South Reduced to Eating Rats.

The Siege of Port Arthur, 1905. Russia Humiliated. Mechanized Slaughtering Ushered in as New War Standard.

The Siege of Malta, 1565. Ottoman Power Halted in its Tracks. Muslim Invasion of the Central and Western Mediterranean Sea Ends, Forever.

The Siege of Rhodes, 1522. One Small Order of Knights Stops Islam from an Open Door to Europe.

The Siege of Imphal, 1944. Japanese Army Left to Rot. British and Indian Refusal to Surrender Alters History.

The Siege of Grozny, 1994-95. Total Russian Military Command Failure. Grozny's Apocalyptic Destruction Breeds Insurgency.