Wyatt held Rochester and controlled the Medway crossing — the strategic key to the Kent-London road. When Norfolk arrived with a royal army, the London Whitecoats marched over to Wyatt en masse. Norfolk fled back to London. The defection demonstrated how unpopular the Spanish marriage was even among professional soldiers and showed how close Wyatt came to bringing down Mary's government.
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