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1. The legend goes that the king of England, while besieging this city in 1346-7, became so irate at the defiance of the city's burghers, that when they surrendered he promptly ordered them to be executed. They were allegedly saved by the Queen. What city was it?
2. How many different forces have attempted to or taken the city of Constantinople?
3. At the fall of which Scottish city did an English king mercilessly butcher many thousands of its inhabitants in a show of brute force and calculated act of terrorism?
4. What Japanese city was the centre and main area of the Onin War 1467-77, resulting in its destruction and sacking?
5. Under another name I was taken by the Spanish in 1519 and then later under my modern name, by the Americans during an unprovoked war in 1847. What city am I?
6. Which island was twice besieged by mighty empires and both times survived against the odds?
7. I was besieged twice by the same empire in 1529 and 1683, and twice repulsed them, but only with the help of a neighbour in 1683.
8. This protestant city was besieged in 1688 by a Catholic army in the reign of James II but held out for a famous victory that now plays a large role in the region's historical culture.
9. I was besieged or sacked by the Celts and Germanic tribes, but one near siege inflicted such fear into this city that a common phrase to frighten children was that 'Hannibal is at the gates!'
10. Which French city was twice besieged and forced to pay ransoms to avert its sacking during the fourteenth century?
11. Which major European capital city and heart of a proud military tradition fell much to the astonishment of Europe in 1871?
12. What city of three million was invested for 900 days and was constantly bombarded during that period?
13. Which middle eastern city fell to the Mongols in 1258 resulting in the alleged slaughter of thousands, the devastation of the city, its relics and power?
14. What city's Moslem and Jewish inhabitants were massacred after its Christian besiegers finally scaled the walls and took the city?
15. What city during the 1st Crusade was saved from a siege by the Turks after the men were inspired by the supposed finding of the Holy Lance in 1098?
16. What supposedly impregnable castle did Richard the Lionheart amazingly reduce in 11 days in 1179?
17. The siege of this city in the Levant had been going on for many years before the arrival of two of the most powerful kings of the twelfth century Western Europe led eventually to its fall.
18. "The place was regarded as impregnable because of the size and strength of the walls and the great numbers of its defenders. Caesar besieged it, however, and while doing so, he was threatened from outside by a quite indescribable danger. Three hundred thousand men, the best fighting troops from every nation in Gaul, assembled together and marched to the relief of ________. Caesar now found himself caught between two enormous forces; he was himself besieged and was compelled to build two systems of fortification, one facing the city and one facing the relieving army, since he knew well that, if the two forces should combine, everything would be over with him. "
Plutarch, Life, 27. What was the city?
19. Which two South American cities were captured and then lost by the British during the Napoleonic Wars against Napoleon's allies, the Spanish?
20. Which fort, then Swedish, was besieged by the Russians which in turn led to a famous victory by the relieving Swedish army under its charismatic young king in 1700?
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