Robert Devereux Essex, 3rdApril 1643
Captures Reading for the Parliamentarians & prevents Charles I from reaching London
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Captures Reading for the Parliamentarians & prevents Charles I from reaching London
Surrenders Reading to the Parliamentarians under Essex
The Royalist Reading garrison is handed over to the Roundheads
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