Parliamentary forces besieged Donnington Castle for the second time in the autumn of 1644, surrounding it with siege works after the Second Battle of Newbury. However Charles I marched from Oxford in November 1644 and retrieved his cannon from Donnington under the noses of three Parliamentary armies, a remarkable Royalist coup that humiliated the Parliamentary commanders.
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