Siege of Hereford

When

1645

Kind

Siege

Coordinates

52.06° N, 2.72° W

Description

part of the First English Civil War (1645)

Date from

year in its Wikidata description

Part of the First English Civil War (1645)

The siege of Hereford took place in 1645 during the English Civil War when the city of Hereford and its English Royalist garrison was besieged by a Scottish Covenanter army under the command of the Earl of Leven. The Covenanters were allied to the English Parliamentarian cause and moved to take the Royalist stronghold in the wake of their victory at the Battle of Naseby.

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