Abingdon on the Thames was seized by Parliamentary forces in 1644 and fortified as a garrison town threatening the southern approaches to Oxford. Royalist forces from Oxford made repeated attempts to recover Abingdon, which was of vital importance as a Parliamentary bridgehead south of the Royalist capital.
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