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    The siege of Basing House near Basingstoke in Hampshire, was a Parliamentarian victory late in the First English Civil War. Whereas the title of the event...
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    Basing House was a Tudor palace and castle in the village of Old Basing in the English county of Hampshire. It once rivalled Hampton Court Palace in its...
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    During the Civil War, and the siege of Basing House between 1643 and 1645, the town played host to large numbers of Parliamentarians. During this time...
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  • William Robbins (actor) (category Year of birth unknown)
    during the siege of Basing House. Robbins career began by 1617, when he was with Queen Anne's Men; he remained with that company for the remainder of its existence...
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    Henry Gage (soldier) (category English military personnel of the Eighty Years' War)
    Gallery, London, npg.org.uk For the family tree of the Gages for this period: firleplace.co.uk For the story of the Basing House siege: britannia.com...
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    Wenceslaus Hollar (category Articles with National Gallery of Canada identifiers)
    William Faithorne the engraver, he stood the long and eventful siege of Basing House, and as there were some hundred plates from his hand dated during...
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  • Westminster Trained Bands (category Trained Bands of England)
    that they were to march to relieve the Siege of Plymouth). Waller abandoned this first Siege of Basing House and retired to Farnham, where food and pay...
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  • The Spaghetti House siege took place between 28 September and 3 October 1975. An attempted robbery of the Spaghetti House restaurant in Knightsbridge...
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    part in a new siege of Basing House, where they were joined on 15 November by the Tower Hamlets from Donnington but the siege of Basing was lifted for...
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    albeit of differing denominations. One possible comparison is Cromwell's Siege of Basing House in 1645—the seat of the prominent Catholic the Marquess of Winchester—which...
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    Lathom House Lancaster Preston The siege of Lathom House was a military confrontation between a Parliamentarian army and a Royalist stronghold in Lathom...
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    Richard Whitehead (Hampshire MP) (category Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Lymington)
    suddenly." Under the command of General William Waller he was present at the siege of Basing House at the beginning of 1644. He also besieged Bishop's...
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    raised the siege of Basing House. Charles thus ended the campaigning season with a notable success. The Parliamentarian armies' unwieldy council of war was...
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  • Third siege of Basing House – 1645 – First English Civil War, 1645 (First English Civil War) [Wars of the Three Kingdoms] Storming of Shelford House – 1645...
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    local history referred to the village as Basing, with Old Basing listed as an alternative name. Old Basing was first settled in the sixth century by...
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    Gilbert White (category Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford)
    the Ancient Town and Manor of Basingstoke in the County of Southampton; With a Brief Account of the Siege of Basing House, A.D. 1643-1645. Basingstoke:...
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  • Basingas (category Peoples of Anglo-Saxon England)
    (1889). A History of the Ancient Town and Manor of Basingstoke in the County of Southampton: With a Brief Account of the Siege of Basing House, A. D. 1643-1645...
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    Edmund Ludlow (category Regicides of Charles I)
    as major of Arthur Hesilrige's regiment of horse. He was present at the second battle of Newbury in October 1644, at the siege of Basing House in November...
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  • Army's Siege of Oxford in 1645. A 'commanded party' of 100 musketeers from the White Auxiliaries was sent to assist the final siege of Basing House later...
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    Parliamentarian forces. Principal engagements were the Siege of Basing House between 1643 and 1645, and the Battle of Cheriton in 1644; both were significant Parliamentarian...
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    Inigo Jones (category English people of Welsh descent)
    outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642 and the seizure of the King's houses in 1643. Jones was captured at the third siege of Basing House in October...
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    the Royalist cavalry. October 8–14 – English Civil War: The Third siege of Basing House by Oliver Cromwell results in its destruction. October 8 – Jeanne...
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    and garrisoned Basing House and held it for Charles I during 1643 and 1644. The siege of Basing House, notwithstanding an attempt of his youngest brother...
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  • field provides the location of the battles and sieges discussed as events. Associated Wars - These fields provide the name(s) of the war(s) associated with...
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  • Richard Robinson (actor) (category Year of birth unknown)
    Histrionica (1699), falsely report that Robinson was killed in the siege of Basing House in October 1645, during the English Civil War. Richard Robinson...
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    The siege of Leningrad (Russian: Блокада Ленинграда, romanized: Blokada Leningrada; German: Leningrader Blockade; Finnish: Leningradin piiritys, Italian:...
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    Bands of London and the Tower Hamlets Auxiliaries (the Yellow Regiment)) in Sir William Waller's Parliamentarian army at the Siege of Basing House and Battle...
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  • Robert Peake (printer) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating information from the Dictionary of National Biography Index and Epitome)
    Parliamentarians captured him after their siege of Basing House, which was under his command. (Walpole, Anecdotes of Painting, 221.) Cust 1895, p. 148. Cust...
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    The Waco siege, also known as the Waco massacre, was the siege by U.S. federal government and Texas state law enforcement officials of a compound belonging...
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    The siege of Acre was the first significant counterattack by Guy of Jerusalem against Saladin, leader of the Muslims in Syria and Egypt. This pivotal siege...
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