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Siege of Reading

4 Kas 1642 – 25 Nis 1643 · 51.45° N, 0.97° W

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4 Kas 1642 – 25 Nis 1643
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51.45° N, 0.97° W
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eleven-day blockade of Reading, Berkshire 1643

Siege of Reading

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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