The victory allowed the United States to begin a siege of Santiago de Cuba, which led to Spanish surrender and the end of the Spanish-American War.
An hour after the battle ended, Austin arrived with the rest of the Texian army to begin a siege of San Antonio de Béxar, where General Martín Perfecto de Cós, the overall commander of Mexican forces in Texas, and his troops were garrisoned.
The Allies began a siege of the fortress of Mons on September 4, and the French tried to break this siege by concentrating and entrenching nearby, at Malplaquet.
On February 23 , 1836 a Mexican army, variously estimated at 1,800 to 6,000 men and commanded by General Antonio López de Santa Anna, arrived from south of the Rio Grande and immediately began a siege of the Alamo.
Military officials said they began a siege of the building on Monday night, after reports that several hundred militants had holed up inside as Israelis began their West Bank campaign.
This modal, however, expresses the predictive likelihood of a situation as in, "Although he failed to capture Petersburg, a rail center south of Richmond, he began a siege of the city.
Santa Anna and his army began a siege of the Alamo on February 24.
Howe had decided against a direct frontal assault against the entrenched American positions choosing instead to begin a siege and setting up lines of circumvallation around the American positions who he believed to be essentially trapped with his troops blocking escape by land and the Royal Navy in control of the East River which they would have to cross to reach Manhattan Island.
Shortly after the 11-minute mark, "Kidnapped" explodes into violence as three masked intruders crash through a window, tie up the family members, confiscate their cellphones and bank cards and begin a siege that continues for the rest of the movie.
Spanish forces began a siege and bombardment of Gibraltar the following month, causing severe damage through intensive cannon fire.
A9 A Year After Siege, Few Answers Nearly a year after terrorists from a Chechen separatist group took over a school in Beslan, Russia, beginning a siege that ended in the deaths of 331 people, there is scarcely more clarity about what happened than there was immediately after the event.
