During the Second Civil War, a Surrey Royalist rising attempted to secure Kingston bridge — the key Thames crossing south-west of London — to link with the Kentish rising. Parliamentary cavalry suppressed the rising at the bridge before it could gain momentum. The failure of the Surrey rising to coordinate effectively with the Kentish insurrection was a pattern repeated across the Second Civil War, where simultaneous local risings failed to unite into a coherent national threat.
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