Siege of Portsmouth

Siege of Portsmouth
Part of the First English Civil War
Date 10 August – 7 September 1642 Location Portsmouth, Hampshire, England Result Parliamentarian victory
Belligerents
Royalists	Parliamentarians
Commanders and leaders
Lord Goring	Sir William Waller John Urry
Strength
500 1 ship	400–800 2+ cannons 7 ships
Casualties and losses
Unknown 1 ship captured	Unknown

The siege of Portsmouth was the siege of a Royalist garrison in Portsmouth by a Parliamentarian force conducted in the early part of the First English Civil War. The siege resulted in Portsmouth falling to Parliament after a little under a month of conflict.