"Craziest Sieges in History" Topic

"Sieges are violent tests of ingenuity and balls between two sides, and over the years men of war have come up with some pretty clever ways to keep their enemies the off their lawns. Sieges are never as simple as ladders and ballistae, but here are six from history that are especially unusual…"

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Armand

Not sure that Waco stacks up with the other sieges

And Rorke's Drift wasn't a siege.

Glup!…

Armand

And yet "Home Alone" isn't included in that list…

+1 Alamo on March 6 and Alexander the Great on any day. All he did was turn Tyre from an island into a peninsula and a famous city-state into a fishing village. All the god stuff came after Egypt.

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Armand

Rorke's Drift was not a siege…?

Armand

No it was the focal point of an assault.
There was one siege in the Zulu War where a group had to operate from a surrounded encampment.

Craziest siege may have occurred in the War of 1812. At present day Talladega, the Upper Creek force surrounded the Lower Creek, pro-American, towns combination of long spears, a weapon used strictly for defensive of a town by old men and women. The defenders held out as long as powder was available for their muskets. When powder got low, they had several volunteers attempt to penetrate the lines and try to reach the Americans for help.

Jackson with a force was operating north of the town and had just burned several Upper Creek or Red Stick towns. One successful warrior had camouflaged himself by wearing a pig stick and had crawled over five hundred yards before he felt safe enough to stand. He raced to Jackson a urged him to move toward the town. The relief actions worked.

The other siege that think about was the 1730s French attack on the Chickasaw capital. The crazy event was when the French grenadiers and musketeers put on sacks of grain to protect themselves as they attacked the defensive dugout bunkers and firing trenches of the wall.enjoyed writing that book on the Franco-Chickasaw Wars of the 1700s.

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Armand