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Bronze plaque № 56386

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From near this place on July 26th 1643. Colonel Henry Washington attacked the Parliamentary defences between Royal Fort and Brandon Hill. with a small force he effected "Washingtons Breach" (at the present junction of Park Row and Park Street) through which the royalist troops entered Bristol and compelled its capitulation. He was the grandson of Lawrence Washington of Sulgrave and a collateral ancestor of George Washington (1732-1799) first President of the United States of America. Erected in 1931 by the Bristol Branch of the Geographical Association.

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