The Newark garrison conducted a major sortie toward South Muskeham in 1645, raiding Parliamentary supply depots and burning villages being used as billets by the besieging force. Newark sorties during the third siege were among the most aggressive of any besieged garrison in the Civil War, with the garrison numbering still several hundred effective horse.
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