Parliamentarian army over 19,000 (16,000 foot, 3,000 cavalry, plus artillery) under the Earl of Essex; Royalist garrison approximately 3,300 under Sir Arthur Aston then Colonel Richard Feilding; separate Royalist relief force under King Charles I and Prince Rupert
Reading Siege 1643 Essex Relief March was a Civil War siege, the investment of a fortified position, fought in England in 1643. Parliamentarians prevailed over Royalists. Essex's Parliamentarian army blockaded and bombarded the town for eleven days, repelled a Royalist relief attempt led by King Charles I and Prince Rupert at Caversham Bridge on 25 April, and accepted the Royalist garrison's surrender (with generous terms allowing safe passage to Oxford) on 27 April 1643.
The site of Reading Siege 1643 Essex Relief March lies on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.
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