1644 February Siege of Newcastle.

1644 February 3rd. Siege of Newcastle: from (when the town was formally asked to surrender) until October 19th. during the English civil war. Scottish army under command of Lord General Alexander Leslie (Earl of Leven) laid siege to city of Newcastle-on-Tyne the same year when the Scots took the city by storm. However it was the defeat of the Royalist field army at the pitched battle of Marston moor on July 2nd.1644 by the combined English Parliamentary and the Scottish armies that decided the fate of Newcastle and the other Royalist strong- holds in the north east of England, because without the means of relief from an army in the field the capitulation of all such strong-holds was only a matter of time.