Tantallon Castle on the East Lothian coast, the great stronghold of the Douglases, held out as a royalist garrison after the English occupation of Scotland. English forces blockaded and besieged the castle in 1651. The massive red sandstone fortress on its coastal promontory was eventually reduced by artillery bombardment, its walls breached and the garrison compelled to surrender.
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