During the second siege of Hull, the Parliamentary garrison conducted bold sorties to destroy Royalist siege works. Combined with the flooding of the surrounding terrain, these sorties made the siege untenable. The Hull garrison's active defence was a model for Civil War garrison warfare and a rare example of a successful combined land-sea defence in the conflict.
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