The city of Y'Ghatan was the subject of many sieges, and each time it was rebuilt. The event which was commonly known as the Siege of Y'Ghatan was the siege led by Dassem Ultor and the one where he was commonly believed to have died. When Ganoes Paran met Whiskeyjack at the beginning of Gardens of the Moon, the siege was a very recent event which put it around the year 1154 of Burn's Sleep. According to Blistig, both the Malaz 1st Army and the Malaz 9th Army had laid siege to the city and a total of eight to ten thousand soldiers had been lost.