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What would you do if under siege, or if ordered to assault a fortified position? Explore these five complete famous sieges and storming attempts across history.

  • Iceni Queen Boudicca takes ancient London by storm as her warriors descend upon the frightened inhabitants. A single Roman legion must fend off the barbarian horde and hold open the escape route over the Thames River.
  • The Gaul warlord, Vercingetorix, occupies the hilltop of Alesia and accepts a Roman siege. Before being encircled, messages go out summoning every Gaul in the country to his rescue. Caesar in turn digs in twice around the town, facing both inwards and outwards, supremely prepared to fight on two fronts!
  • During the 1522 Ottoman siege of fortress Rhodes. Suleiman the Magnificent leads a force numbering some 200,000 against 7,500 Hospitaller Knights and soldiers from all across Europe. The Ottomans finally succeeded in breaching the fortress and with that, the Hospitallers and civilians were provided generous surrender terms. A Spanish minister reported the end to Emperor Charles V remarking, "Sire, nothing was so well lost...".
  • Refight the Battle of Camerone, a ten hour fight in the heat and dust near Vera Cruz on April 30th 1863 between the French Foreign Legion and the Mexican Army. After the battle and learning just how few French troops there were, the Mexican commander exclaimed, "These Are Not Men, They Are Devils!"
  • The Third Siege of Badajoz (Mar-Apr 1812) was one of the bloodiest in the Napoleonic Wars. Some 4,800 Allied soldiers killed or wounded in just a few hours of intense fighting on April 6th while storming the breaches. This action was one of the few where Wellington lost control of his men and the subsequent sack of the city became infamous.