Spring brought the threat of counterattack by a relief force under Kerbogha of Mosul.
The garrison thought this was an Iraqi army relief force until it was too late.
They severely defeated a Carthaginian relief force and could not be permanently dislodged even by Hannibal himself.
At Halidon Hill, Edward blocked the approach of a relief force under Sir Archibald Douglas, regent for David II.
On his way home Stephen met Alexius, who was marching at the head of a Byzantine relief force, and convinced him that Antioch's cause was hopeless.
At 10 a.m., with the big Union relief force under Franklin stalled less than five miles away, the garrison at the ferry raised the white flag of surrender.
Finally, in early June an international relief force of some 2,100 men was dispatched from the northern port of Tianjin to Beijing.
According to the report, compiled by senior intelligence and state department officials, the relief force are "US personnel" and their base an "annexe" to the mission.
Instead of retreating from a superior British relief force, Washington swung around the enemy and moved north to cut the British supply lines.
An eight-nation allied relief force, including a British contingent, made its way from the coast, with much bickering between the rival commanders.
The Carthaginians hastily assembled a relief force, but in a battle fought off the Aegates, or Aegusae (Aegadian) Islands, west of Drepanum, their fleet was caught at a disadvantage and was largely sunk or captured (March 10, 241).
