title: Siege of Carlisle
text: # Siege of Carlisle
  
  The siege of Carlisle may refer to:
  
  ## United Kingdom
  
  * Siege of Carlisle (1315), Andrew Harclay, 1st Earl of Carlisle, drove off Robert I of Scotland from a siege of Carlisle
  * Siege of Carlisle (1644), Covenanters besiege but fail to take Carlisle, being held by Royalist James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose
  * Siege of Carlisle (1645), Covenanters under Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven, besiege and take Carlisle from a Royalist garrison in 1645
  * Siege of Carlisle (November 1745), the Jacobite Army under Charles Edward Stuart besiege and take Carlisle
  * Siege of Carlisle (December 1745), British forces under the Duke of Cumberland besiege and retake Carlisle
  