In 343 BC, the Phocaeans unsuccessfully laid siege to Kydonia on the island of Crete.

In the case of Bremen, 12,000 imperial soldiers under the command of Duke Eric II of Brunswick-Calenberg unsuccessfully laid siege from January until May.

In 263 BC The Roman consul Appius Claudius Caudex unsuccessfully laid siege to Echetla but was forced to withdraw to Messana after suffering many losses.

In January 1566 Sweden unsuccessfully laid siege to Bohus Fortress in Bohuslän.

Helpless and without any interest in what happened around him, he lay in a semiconscious state and unsuccessfully attempted to figure out what had overtaken him.

In 1512 John Zápolya unsuccessfully laid siege to the town.

During the 6th-7th centuries the area around Thessaloniki was invaded by Avars and Slavs, who unsuccessfully laid siege to the city several times.

The parleys failed and Leopold continued to attack the Bavarian forces of Louis, who unsuccessfully laid siege to the Swabian town of Burgau in 1324.

However, the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum was finally brought to battle when it unsuccessfully laid siege to Nicaea.

The Castilians unsuccessfully laid siege to Orihuela in 1364.