Harlech Castle was held for the King by Colonel William Owen of Brogyntyn with a tiny garrison of 16 officers and 28 soldiers. It was the very last Royalist castle to fall in the entire Civil War — on 15 March 1647 — making it the last military stronghold of Charles I in Britain. Mytton accepted the surrender personally. The castle's extraordinary record of defiance (it had also been the last to fall in the Wars of the Roses) is the direct inspiration for "Men of Harlech."
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