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The first engagement was in November 1643, when Sir William Waller at the head of an army of about 7,000 attempted to take Basing House by direct assault. After three failed attempts it became obvious to him that his troops lacked the necessary resolve, and with winter fast approaching Waller retreated back to a more friendly location.
On the outbreak of the English Civil War, he fortified and garrisoned Basing House and held it for Charles I during 1643 and 1644. The siege of Basing House, notwithstanding an attempt of his younger brother, Lord Charles Paulet, to deliver it up to the enemy, lasted from August 1643 to 16 October 1645, when, during the general decline of the ...
In an October 1643 offensive led by Sir Ralph Hopton, the Royalists advanced into Sussex, where a small garrison at Arundel Castle surrendered without fighting on 2 December. [ b ] Hopton's policy of trying to hold as many towns as possible left individual garrisons isolated, while the Royalists lacked a mobile field army, capable of quickly ...
The Parliamentarians end the siege of Basing House for a second time: 11: 15: 1644: Basing House 2nd (Siege Ends) 1st English Civil War: The Cessation of Arms is renewed: 12: 01: 1644: Irish Confederate Wars: Colonel Rawstorne and the Royalists surrender Lathom House in Lancashire: 12: 02: 1644: Lathom House 2nd (Siege Ends) 1st English Civil War
Basing House was a Tudor palace and castle in the village of Old Basing in the English county of Hampshire. [1] It once rivalled Hampton Court Palace in its size and opulence. Today only parts of the basement or lower ground floor, plus the foundations and earthworks, remain.
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Pages in category "1643 in England" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. ... Siege of Basing House; Battle of Aldbourne Chase; Battle of ...
After the success of Lostwithiel, there was little to detain Charles's main army in the extreme west. Meanwhile, Banbury, a most important point in the Oxford circle, and Basing House (near Basingstoke) were in danger of capture. Waller, who had organised a small force of reliable troops, had already sent cavalry into Dorsetshire with the idea ...