The broadside fired into Redoutable reduced the French ship to a wreck and forced its surrender soon afterwards when it became tangled with Victory and Temeraire.
When in January 1001 Tibur, Italy, rebelled against Otto, he laid siege to the town, forced its surrender, and then pardoned its inhabitants.
Siege of Yorktown, (September 28 October 19 , 1781, joint Franco-American land and sea campaign that entrapped a major British army on a peninsula at Yorktown, Virginia, and forced its surrender.
After Perry's flagship, "Lawrence," had suffered heavy casualties and had been reduced to a defenseless wreck, he transferred to a sister ship, the "Niagara," and sailed directly into the British line, firing broadsides and forcing its surrender.
When English miners tunnelled under the walls and forced its surrender in September, Henry is said to have thrown his splendid hat in the air in exuberance, and it was caught and kept as a souvenir of the victory by one of his courtiers.
The Castilians besieged the city for two years and eventually forced its surrender, though Gibraltar remained in Moorish hands.
Initially held by Royalist forces, the castle was still important enough that when the Scots invaded in 1644 they forced its surrender.
During the 15th century Wars of the Roses, Harlech was held by the Lancastrians for seven years, before Yorkist troops forced its surrender in 1468, a siege memorialised in the song Men of Harlech.
She took part in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba, where she and the cruiser Brooklyn were the only ships fast enough to chase down the Spanish cruiser Cristobal Colon, forcing its surrender.
They each fired a broadside across its bulwarks, killing several of its crew, and forcing its captain to surrender.
