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The Siege of Colchester occurred in 1066 when the Norman nobleman Robert Curthose led an army of 1,164 troops to capture the Anglo-Saxon city of Colchester in Essex amid the Norman conquest of England. Curthose and his army left Rochester, Kent and crossed the River Thames to occupy the defenseless village of Tilbury in southern Essex, after which he advanced north to occupy Chelmsford and then Maldon, bypassing London. Curthose and his army made its way north to Colchester, a major stronghold of the Saxon earldom of Kent, which he besieged. The 1,020-strong garrison, commanded by Waltheof, held out until the Normans constructed siege engines and stormed the city, taking it with 387 losses.

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