The first major Parliamentary assault on Basing House (the great mansion of the Marquess of Winchester) was repulsed in 1643. The house, defended by a fervent Catholic household, became the longest-besieged place in the Civil War. Three major assaults over two years all failed before Cromwell's final storm in October 1645.
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