It was pummelled by canon and musket shot for 11 weeks until the Royalists surrendered on 28 August, ending the second English Civil War. By this stage the besieged had resorted to eating their ...

Evidence of what could be one of the first skirmishes of the English Civil War has been found by archaeologists along the planned HS2 route. Pistol and musket ball marks were discovered on a site ...

As a result, during the English Civil War the castle became a Royalist stronghold. Guernsey itself, however, supported the Parliamentarians. The island and the castle exchanged cannon and musket ...