Wallingford Castle was one of the strongest Royalist garrisons in England, described as impregnable. Parliamentary forces invested it from 1644 but could not breach its walls by assault. The castle held out until July 1646, three weeks after Oxford surrendered, when the garrison under Colonel Blagge finally capitulated on honourable terms.
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