Talk:Siege of Portsmouth

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Did you know... that during the Siege of Portsmouth, Southsea Castle was captured from a drunken commander?

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Long shot but these two might be civil war era:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/a-seventeenth-century-soldier-from-buckingham-house-portsm24811 http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/a-seventeenth-century-soldier-from-buckingham-house-portsm24812

©Geni 23:44, 6 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]