Download or read book SIEGES OF PONTEFRACT CASTLE 16 written by Richard Holmes and published by Naval & Military Press. This book was released on 2016-10-07 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fine account of the three civil war sieges of Yorkshire's Pontefract Castle. A Royalist stronghold, the great Medieval castle was reduced to ruins after Parliament finally took it in 1648.