The Siege of Newcastle occurred in 1644, during the English Civil War. A Scottish army under the command of Alexander Leslie, Lord Leven laid siege to the city of Newcastle-on-Tyne from 3 February (when the town was formally asked to surrender) until 19 October the same year when the Scots took the city by storm.[1][2]
However it was the defeat of the Royalist field army at the pitched battle of Marston Moor on 2 July 1644 by the combined English Parliamentary and the Scottish armies that decided the fate of Newcastle and all the other Royalist strongholds in the North East of England, because without the means of relief from a an army in the field the capitulation of all such strong holds was only a matter of time.[1][2][3]