Siege of Newcastle

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Siege of Newcastle
Part of the First English Civil War
Engraving of Newcastle Castle
Date 3 February - 27 October 1644 Location Newcastle upon Tyne Result Scottish victory
Belligerents
Royalists	Covenanters
Commanders and leaders
Sir John Marlay	Earl of Leven Earl of Callander

Newcastle

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Tyne and Wear and Newcastle on the Tyne

The siege of Newcastle (3 February 1644 – 27 October 1644) occurred during the First English Civil War, when a Covenanter army under the command of Lord General Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven besieged the Royalist garrison under Sir John Marlay, the city's governor. Eventually, the Covenanters took the city of Newcastle upon Tyne by storm, and the Royalist garrison who still held castle keep surrendered on terms.^[1]

This was not the first time that Newcastle upon Tyne had changed hands during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. The Scots had occupied the city during the Second Bishops’ War in 1640.^[2]