Arundel Castle, 2006; the Norman keep (shown here) is the only survivor from 1643, the rest 19th century
Date
19 December 1643 - 6 January 1644
Location
Arundel, West Sussex
Result
Parliamentarian victory
Belligerents
Royalists
Parliamentarians
Commanders and leaders
Joseph Bampfield Sir Edward Ford
Sir William Waller John Birch (WIA)
Strength
800 [a]
5,000
Casualties and losses
Unknown
Unknown
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First English Civil War
1642
1st Hull
Marshall's Elm
Portsmouth
Plymouth
Babylon Hill
Powick Bridge
Kings Norton
Edgehill
Aylesbury
Brentford
Turnham Green
Farnham Castle
Piercebridge
Tadcaster
1st Exeter
Muster Green
1st Bradford
Chichester
1643
Braddock Down
Leeds
1st Middlewich
Hopton Heath
Seacroft Moor
Camp Hill
Lichfield
Ripple Field
Reading
Sourton Down
1st Wardour Castle
Stratton
Wakefield
1st Worcester
Chalgrove Field
Adwalton Moor
2nd Bradford
Burton Bridge
Lansdowne
Roundway Down
1st Bristol
Gainsborough
Gloucester
2nd Hull
Aldbourne Chase
1st Newbury
Winceby
Olney Bridge
1st Basing House
Heptonstall
2nd Wardour Castle
Alton
Bramber Bridge
Arundel
2nd Middlewich
1644
Nantwich
Newcastle
1st Lathom House
Newark
Boldon Hill
Stourbridge Heath
Cheriton
Selby
Lyme Regis
York
Lincoln
1st Oxford
Bolton
2nd Basing House
Tipton Green
Oswestry
Cropredy Bridge
Marston Moor
Gunnislake New Bridge
Ormskirk
Lostwithiel
Tippermuir
1st Aberdeen
Montgomery Castle
1st Chester
1st Taunton
Carlisle
2nd Newbury
1645
Inverlochy
High Ercall Hall
Weymouth
Scarborough Castle
2nd Taunton
Auldearn
3rd Taunton
2nd Oxford
Leicester
Naseby
Alford
2nd Lathom House
Langport
Hereford
Kilsyth
2nd Bristol
Philiphaugh
2nd Chester
Rowton Heath
Sherburn in Elmet
3rd Basing House
Annan Moor
Denbigh Green
Shelford House
Newark
1646
Bovey Heath
Torrington
Stow-on-the-Wold
3rd Oxford
2nd Aberdeen
Lagganmore
2nd Worcester
The siege of Arundel took place during the First English Civil War, from 19 December 1643 to 6 January 1644, when a Royalist garrison surrendered to a Parliamentarian army under Sir William Waller.
At the end of 1642, South-East England was largely controlled by Parliament, with pockets of Royalist support in Hampshire and Kent. In an October 1643 offensive led by Sir Ralph Hopton, the Royalists advanced into Sussex, where a small garrison at Arundel Castle surrendered without fighting on 2 December.[b]
Hopton's policy of trying to hold as many towns as possible left individual garrisons isolated, while the Royalists lacked a mobile field army, capable of quickly supporting threatened positions. Arundel was attacked by a large Parliamentarian force on 19 December; although strongly held, severe weather and poor roads meant it could not be relieved, and surrendered on 6 January.
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