Siege of Carlisle

1644 CE.

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The siege of Carlisle occurred during the First English Civil War when the allied forces of the Scottish Covenanters and the English Parliamentarians besieged Carlisle Castle which was held at the time by the English Royalist forces loyal to King Charles I. The siege took place in Carlisle, Cumbria from October 1644 to 25 June 1645.

Text from the Wikipedia article Siege of Carlisle (1644), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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