Siege of Reading

Quand

4 nov. 1642 – 25 avr. 1643

Type

Siège

Coordonnées

51.45° N, 0.97° W

Description

eleven-day blockade of Reading, Berkshire 1643

Eleven-day blockade of Reading, Berkshire 1643

The siege of Reading was an eleven-day blockade of Reading, Berkshire during the First English Civil War. Reading had been garrisoned by 3,000 Royalist troops under Sir Arthur Aston in November 1642. On 14 April 1643, Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex led a Parliamentarian army of 19,000 troops to lay siege to the town, and began bombarding it two days later.

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