Following Winceby, the Eastern Association army besieged and captured Lincoln in 1644. The city had been a significant Royalist base. Its fall opened Lincolnshire fully to Parliament and secured the left flank of the Eastern Association before the Marston Moor campaign. Manchester's army, which included Cromwell's cavalry, conducted the siege efficiently. The fall of Lincoln was one of the series of Parliamentary successes in 1643-44 that changed the war's momentum.
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