In January 1643 Sir Thomas Fairfax stormed Leeds, capturing it from its Royalist garrison. Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax — the West Riding cloth towns — were broadly sympathetic to Parliament, and Fairfax's capture of Leeds gave Parliament a base in the industrial heartland of Yorkshire. The cloth workers provided manpower for Parliamentary forces. Leeds was to change hands as the tide of the war in Yorkshire ebbed and flowed over the following months.
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