Sir George Bowes held Barnard Castle for the crown against rebel forces from the Northern Rising. The castle was besieged for eleven days; desertions reduced the garrison from over 700 to 226 before Bowes made a fighting sortie and negotiated surrender. It was the most dramatic siege of the rising.
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