Prince Louis of France besieged Dover Castle in 1216-17, the greatest siege of the First Barons War. Hubert de Burgh held it for the English crown. Louis deployed miners who collapsed a section of the outer gate tower but de Burgh s men blocked the breach with timber. The castle never fell. Louis attempted negotiations and diversionary assaults. Dover s resistance was the single most important military factor in the royalist recovery after John s death.
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