With the fall of Napoléon III in 1870, Malon was freed from prison and helped organise relief for the poor during the Prussian siege of Paris.

The city was under Prussian siege beginning February 1703, but only surrendered on 21 December.

They cheerfully looked beyond the realities of that convalescent city, where, after liberation, Parisians were the hungriest they had been since the Prussian siege.

When during the Prussian siege of the city Mokronowski was sent to Lithuania to replace ailing Wielhorski, Poniatowski was given his post in Warsaw's defense parameter.

During the Franco-Prussian War, Alphonse de Rothschild had guarded the ramparts of Paris on the eve of the Prussian siege.

The government, headed by General Louis Jules Trochu, was under Prussian siege in Paris.

Dresden suffered heavy destruction in the Seven Years' War (1756-1763), following its capture by Prussian forces, its subsequent re-capture, and a failed Prussian siege in 1760.

In a final attempt to cut the German supply lines in northeast France, Bourbaki's army marched north to attack the Prussian siege of Belfort and relieve the beleaguered French defenders.

During the Prussian siege of Paris in 1870, most of the animals were eaten by starving Parisians.

Castor and Pollux (elephants) were killed and eaten during the 1870 Prussian siege of Paris.