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  2. Siege of Basing House - Wikipedia

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    The siege of Basing House by Wenceslaus Hollar. The siege of Basing House near Basingstoke in Hampshire, was a Parliamentarian victory late in the First English Civil War. Whereas the title of the event may suggest a single siege, there were in fact three major engagements.

  3. Basing House - Wikipedia

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    The final siege started in August 1645 when Colonel John Dalbier, with 800 troops, took up position around the walls. The garrison held out, despite further reinforcements to the attacking force, until Oliver Cromwell arrived with a heavy siege-train. [10] By 14 October 1645, the New House had been taken and the defences of the Old House breached.

  4. Basingstoke - Wikipedia

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    Basingstoke is recorded as a weekly market site in the Domesday Book, in 1086, and has held a regular Wednesday market since 1214. [10] During the Civil War, and the siege of Basing House between 1643 and 1645, the town played host to large numbers of Parliamentarians.

  5. US drops website wording on not supporting Taiwan ... - AOL

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    "We oppose any unilateral changes to the status quo from either side," the State Department website reads in the update posted on Thursday. "We expect cross-Strait differences to be resolved by ...

  6. What has happened since four deaths in a small town? - AOL

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    Exactly one year ago, a small town was left shocked after a neighbourhood became a crime scene. Police arrived at a house in Costessey on the outskirts of Norwich to find the bodies of four people ...

  7. Old Basing - Wikipedia

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    Old Basing was first settled in the sixth century by a proto-Anglo-Saxon tribe known as the Basingas.In the ninth century it was a royal estate and it was the site of the Battle of Basing on or about 22 January 871 AD, when a Viking army defeated King Æthelred of Wessex and his brother, the future King Alfred the Great. [4]

  8. Chaos erupts at Antony Blinken’s final press conference as ...

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    Chaos erupted at Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s final press conference Thursday after an announced Israel-Hamas cease-fire and hostage deal, with State Department employees forcibly ...

  9. Category:Basingstoke - Wikipedia

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    Siege of Basing House; Basing Wood; Basingstoke (video game) Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway; Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital; The Breeze (Basingstoke ...