Colonel Thomas Mytton led a Parliamentary force that took Shrewsbury by surprise escalade — scaling ladders placed against the walls at night — in February 1645. The Royalists were caught completely off-guard. The loss of Shrewsbury — the Royalist administrative centre for Wales and the Marches — was a catastrophe for the Royalist cause in the west, opening Wales to Parliamentary operations and cutting off an important route for Irish reinforcements.
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