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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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