Portsmouth's Royalist governor George Goring (later to command Royalist cavalry at Naseby) declared for the King in August 1642. Parliamentary forces under Norton besieged it and, without hope of relief and with the garrison reduced by disease and bombardment, Goring surrendered. Portsmouth remained in Parliamentary hands throughout the war, denying the Royalists a vital south-coast naval base. This was Parliament's first significant military success.
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