Cardigan Castle was one of the last Royalist strongholds in south-west Wales to fall. Colonel Rice Powell's Parliamentary forces took it as part of the systematic reduction of Royalist positions in Cardiganshire and Carmarthenshire. After Cardigan's fall, Parliamentary control of the west Wales coast was essentially complete, allowing Cromwell to concentrate on Pembroke Castle during the Second Civil War.
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