Southampton functioned as a major Parliamentary supply base throughout the Civil War, receiving goods by sea and distributing them to Parliamentary forces operating in Hampshire, Wiltshire and Dorset. The town was securely held from 1642 and its port facilities were used to supply the Parliamentary armies engaged against the Royalist strongholds of Winchester and Basing House.
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