Siege of Newcastle

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Siege of Newcastle
Part of the First English Civil War

Engraving of Newcastle Castle
Date3 February - 27 October 1644
Location
Result Scottish victory
Belligerents
Royalists Covenanters
Commanders and leaders
Sir John Marlay Earl of Leven
Earl of Callander
Siege of Newcastle is located in Tyne and Wear
Newcastle
Newcastle
Tyne and Wear and Newcastle on the Tyne

The siege of Newcastle (3 February 1644 – 27 October 1644) occurred during the First English Civil War, when a Covenanter army under the command of Lord General Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven besieged the Royalist garrison under Sir John Marlay, the city's governor. Eventually, the Covenanters took the city of Newcastle upon Tyne by storm, and the Royalist garrison who still held castle keep surrendered on terms.[1]

This was not the first time that Newcastle upon Tyne had changed hands during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. The Scots had occupied the city during the Second Bishops’ War in 1640.[2]


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