
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
On the contrary, @mikewwatso, The Cromwellians besieged Oxford three times and eventually took it, though very gently. . Charles fled by a back way. A tiny piece of the civil war earthworks survives just off Mansfield Road. — PolitiTweet.org
Mike Watson COY🐝 @mikewatso
@ClarkeMicah Charles I's capital in the Civil War. As far as I'm aware the parliamentaries never even tried to take it.