The final Royalist garrison in England surrendered at Pontefract in March 1649, after Charles I had already been executed. The garrison had carried out a daring raid in which they captured Colonel Rainsborough, who was killed in the struggle — a controversial incident. The castle's surrender ended the last armed resistance of the First and Second Civil Wars.
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