Welcome to the On This Day section of our website where we aim to provide an article for every day of the year. The listing below gives you the 10 most recent articles but using the tools provided you can also filter the database to give more precise results. You can filter by Place or Location or Both or if you need something more precise or flexible you can use our free text-search facility.
Although it is quite difficult to decide on the actual date of the surrender of St Michael’s Mount, since there are several different possibilities, the most likely is Thursday 16th April 1646,