2015 Event Turkey sends troops to Syria to rescue 40 guards and relocate remains from the tomb of Sulayman Shah, which is now surrounded by ISIS militants; the site is internationally recognized as Turkish territory 2012 Event Archeologist excavating the Templo Mayor, one of the Aztec's main temples in their capital city of Tenochtitlan (now Mexico city), make an unprecedented find - the skeleton of a young woman inside a burial, surrounded by piles of 1,789 human bones 2012 Event Voters in Lesotho, a landlocked country completely surrounded by the Republic of South Africa, go to the polls for a general election 1944 Event Budapest surrounded by soviet army 1943 Event Jewish quarter of Rome surrounded by Nazis, they are sent to Auschwitz 1942 Event German 4th and 6th Army surrounded at Stalingrad 1918 Event 7 U.S. soldiers are surrounded by Germans in France, Alvin York is given command and shoots 20 Germans and captures 132 more 1915 Event 2nd Battle of Masurian Lakes: German armies surrounded a Russian army 1711 Event Surrounded Czar Peter the Great flees Azov 1525 Event German boer army surrounded/slaughters 5,000; ends Boer war
