Dover Castle — the key to England commanding the Strait of Dover — was briefly seized in the Kentish rising of 1648. The Parliamentary government immediately recognised its strategic importance and moved to retake it. The castle's guns commanded the most important shipping lane in England. Its rapid recovery prevented the Royalists from using it as a port for receiving Royalist ships from the Netherlands or Prince Charles's fleet.
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