Pontefract Castle's third and final Civil War siege began in 1648 as part of the Second Civil War. The garrison, holding out for Charles I, continued to resist even after the king's execution in January 1649. Colonel Morris's garrison finally surrendered in March 1649 — the last Royalist garrison to hold out in England. Pontefract was subsequently demolished. Colonel Rainsborough, the Parliamentary general, was assassinated by Royalist agents during the siege — the most prominent casualty of the northern war in 1648.
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