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My favorite siege story is Alexander being taunted by islanders who thought themselves immune to being under siege and attacked.

They slowly stopped laughing as they realized the Macedonians were filling in the shore front to make a kilometer long 200m wide causeway to march across.

It did not end well for the island City of Tyre and its inhabitants.




I jumped to read a bit about it, expecting from your comment a swift victory, but it's much more involved than that, the sequence of attack strategies and counterattacks are quite suspenseful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Tyre_(332_BC)#The_sie...




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