Sieges of Taunton

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The sieges of Taunton were a series of three blockades during the First English Civil War. The town of Taunton, in Somerset, was considered to be of strategic importance because it controlled the main road from Bristol to Devon and Cornwall. Robert Blake commanded the town's Parliamentarian defences during all three sieges, from September 1644 to July 1645.

1644 — 1645  Wikimedia, Wikidata
John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, Ralph Hopton, 1st Baron Hopton, Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, Sir Richard Grenville, 1st Baronet, James Holborne of Menstrie, Ralph Weldon, George Goring, Lord Goring, Edmund Wyndham, siege, Robert Blake, 

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