Last stands

1622 battle

1184 battle of the Genpei War

six Mexican teenage military cadets who died defending Mexico City in the Battle of Chapultepec

134–133 BCE siege

1944 part of the battle of Leyte Gulf

1899 battle of the Philippine–American War

1842 battle

Pilėnai (also Pillenen in German) was a hill fort in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Its location is unknown and is subject to academic debates, but it is well known in the history of Lithuania due to its heroic defense against the Teutonic Order in 1336. Attacked by a large Teutonic force, the fortress, commanded by Duke Margiris, tried in vain to organize a defense against the larger and stronger invader. Losing hope, the defenders decided to burn their property and commit mass suicide to deprive the Order of prisoners and loot (cf. scorched earth). This dramatic episode from the Lithuanian Cr

1866 battle during Red Cloud's War

thumb|Mount Soffeh, Isfahan Dizkuh () or Shahdiz (), was a fortress near Isfahan, Iran, notably held by the Nizari Ismailis. It was captured and destroyed in Seljuk sultan Muhammad Tapar's anti-Nizari campaign. Its conspicuous, picturesque ruins lie about 8km south of Isfahan on a subpeak of Mount Soffeh.

British South Africa Company unit attacked in 1893 in Rhodesia

1582 siege of Takeda Morinobu

1776 battle of the American Revolutionary War

situation in which a military unit holds against overwhelming odds

1573 siege in Japan

1694 battle of the Polish–Ottoman War

1573 siege

battle during the Falklands War

retreat during the First Anglo-Afghan War

1578 siege of the Hundred Years' Croatian-Ottoman War

1942 battle in Crimea during WW2

battle of the Great Sioux War of 1876

1865 battle of the American Civil War

1951 major confrontation during the Chinese Spring Offensive of the Korean War

1985 battle

1660 last stand of the Maratha rearguard against the Adil Shahi forces following the siege of Panhala

1835 Second Seminole War battle

1357 battle at Bubat Square

1863 important skirmish of January Uprising in the Russian Partition of Poland

battle

1646 battle that took place during the First English Civil War