As Prince Louis advanced across southern England, Winchester submitted without serious resistance. John fled northward and Louis occupied the city, gaining control of the royal treasury and symbolically undermining royal authority in the traditional capital. The submission demonstrated how far the royalist cause had collapsed.
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