In a daring night escalade, a small Royalist party scaled the walls of Pontefract Castle shortly after its first surrender. The castle was held through the Second Civil War, becoming the most persistently defended Royalist fortress in England. The garrison staged raids including the killing of Colonel Rainsborough at Doncaster in 1648.
Royalist escalade party: c.100
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