One of the most technically sophisticated sieges in English history. John besieged Rochester immediately after Magna Carta was repudiated. His engineers mined the corner tower and used the fat of forty pigs as fuel to collapse it. The garrison retreated to the keep behind the cross-wall, creating one of the earliest documented examples of a keep as a last redoubt within a fallen outer ward.
Garrison surrendered; John wished to execute them but was persuaded not to by mercenary commanders
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