Company sergeant with a sword and long halberd - the Siege of Basing House, English civil war reenactment, English Civil War Society

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To help try and distinguish between them, officers wore coloured sashes – tawny orange or pale blue for Parliamentarian, crimson red for Royalists. Performed by the English Civil War Society. Basing House, home of John Paulet, the fifth Marquess of Winchester, was known as Loyalty House for the fierce commitment of the Marquess to the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. As the House guarded the main road from London to the west country (now the A30) it was strategically important during the war. This led to it being besieged on three separate occasions, culminating in its fall at the hands of Oliver Cromwell and its subsequent destruction.

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Size: 3803px × 5704px
Location: The St, Old Basing, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England
Photo credit: © Stephen Frost / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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