Little known sieges or battles you find interesting?

[Nighteyes]

Originally Posted by Grandstander

The Battle of Glorieta Pass has nothing in common with the fight depicted in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly apart from being in the west during the Civil War. Glorieta Pass was fought in a narrow canyon, there was no body of water nor bridge being contested. The film's battle concerned a struggle for possession of a bridge in otherwise open territory. Glorieta Pass was a victory for the Federals, in the movie the bridge gets blown up and both sides simply leave.

Ah-hem. I DID say "although loosely"... (In other words, I agree.)

[Nighteyes]

Now that this thread has started me thinking, I believe one of my "favorite" siege/battle areas encompasses northeastern New Mexico, southeastern Colorado, western Kansas, the Cimarron Strip (later the Oklahoma panhandle) and the northern part of the Texas panhandle. There was a whole heckuva lot going on in that area, 1820-1890 or so. Many battles, sieges and massacres took place here.

Useless factoid: Las Vegas New Mexico, around 60 or so miles east of Santa Fe and not far from the Glorieta Pass and Fort Union, was a major stop on the Santa Fe Trail. With the arrival of the railroad it became one of the largest cities in the American Southwest. It played a significant role in the Mexican-American War, in the Civil War, and in the Indian Wars. Many significant figures of the American West -- lawmen, merchants, ranchers and outlaws -- lived in or passed through it.

BTW, the recent movie No Country for Old Men was filmed there, as were portions of Easy Rider and quite a few others.

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Las Vegas Nevada wasn't even established until 1905.

[John-UK]

The Sieges of Gibraltar (there were a few, the last being an economic siege)

Great Siege of Gibraltar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia