🗺️WarExplorerAbout
🗡️🏛️⚔️⚔️🐘🦅🏛️🪓🕎🐉⚔️🏛️🏛️☦️☪️🐉👑🏹🛡️🐎🏴⚜️🐎🕌🌹🛡️⚔️🏯🦁🐢🐉✝️⚔️🕌👑🦅🌲🏰🔔⛓️🔴👑🚢🦅🏥⚔️🦅☦️🏜️🐉🐯🏰🛡️🌍☀️🥊⚔️🌵🐉❄️🪖✈️🪖🌙🌍⚔️☘️🌍🌿💀🌍🛢️☢️✡️🚢🕯️💀🌲🏔️🏔️🪖🕊️🕯️🐺🕌🌅🇺🇦🕊️💥🌍
Roundheads (Parliament)
Cavaliers (Royalists)
← All battles of English Civil War

Siege of Oxford

April 27 – June 24, 1646 · South Theater

Parliamentary Victory — Royalist capital falls; First Civil War ends

April 27 – June 24, 1646

Oxford, the Royalist wartime capital where the King had held court since 1642, was besieged by Fairfax's New Model Army after most Royalist field armies had been defeated or dispersed. Charles himself had already slipped away in disguise in April and surrendered to the Scottish army at Newark. The Oxford garrison, with no hope of relief, negotiated honourable surrender terms and marched out with full military honours on June 24, 1646.

  • Siege of Oxford

Commanders

Roundheads (Parliament) · Sir Thomas Fairfax
Cavaliers (Royalists) · Sir Thomas Glemham