Siege of Reading (Q7510338)

matcher place: Berkshire (relation 88070), Reading (relation 115074), Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire (relation 3820628), Thames Valley (relation 4001795)
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Wikipedia: English
English Wikipedia categories: 1642 in England, 1643 in England, 17th century in Berkshire, Conflicts in 1642, Conflicts in 1643, Military history of Berkshire, Military history of Reading, Berkshire, Sieges of the English Civil Wars

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Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

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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