The Royalist storming and sack of Leicester in May 1645 was the last major Royalist offensive success; it provoked Parliament into committing the New Model Army to battle at Naseby; the sack with its civilian casualties helped harden Parliamentary resolve.
c.300 garrison killed; town plundered
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