Prince Rupert stormed Liverpool on his way to relieve York before Marston Moor. The small Parliamentary garrison was overwhelmed; the port gave the Royalists a western landing point for Irish troops. Liverpool was retaken by Parliament later in 1644 and never again fell.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
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