Colonel John Poyer, a former Parliamentary officer, seized Pembroke Castle and sparked the Second Civil War in Wales. Cromwell came in person to besiege it. Without siege artillery, the reduction took weeks; Poyer finally surrendered when hope of relief was gone. Three leaders were condemned; lots were drawn for who would be shot; Poyer drew the fatal slip.
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