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Siege and Sack at Leicester Amid Cavalier Assaults
Reports describe a brutal siege of Leicester with the town surrounded and batteries established. Citizen defenders and yeomen resisted as enemy forces breached gates, killed, and plundered, while several Committee members were captured or escaped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oxford
Boitask
Pacliamenta
Leiceser
M. Hefbrig
M. Swealey
Mr. Brows
Mijor Exas
Blerke Code Committee
Leicester
Lieut. Backley
Roce Kingham Castle
Col. Gray
Goversour
Cap. Backer