Hull was Parliament's crucial foothold in Yorkshire — the only significant port they controlled in the north. When Newcastle besieged it in 1642, the garrison flooded the surrounding land and Parliamentary ships supplied it by sea. Newcastle could not take it. Hull's survival ensured Parliament retained a base in Yorkshire and continued to tie down Royalist forces that could not be deployed elsewhere.
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