Walmer Castle, one of the trio of Henrician artillery forts on the Kent coast near Deal, was seized for the King in the 1648 rising. Together with Deal and Sandown it formed a small Royalist enclave on the coast that maintained contact with the revolted fleet in the Downs. The parliamentary siege of all three forts proceeded simultaneously. Walmer surrendered in August 1648 after Parliament's naval victory in the Downs and the defeat of the Scottish invasion at Preston.
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