The first Parliamentary siege of Newark began in February 1643. Newark was the key Royalist garrison on the Great North Road and its fall would have opened the road northward. Parliamentary forces invested the town but were unable to take it by assault. Prince Rupert marched to relieve Newark in March 1644, scattering the besieging forces at the Battle of Newark and raising the siege.
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