‘Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
couldn’t put Humpty together again’
Humpty Dumpty was a cannon used during the siege of Colchester in 1648 during the English Civil War. The cannon, nicknamed was placed on the walls of St. Mary’s Church by the Royalist supporters of King Charles 1 when a Parliamentary cannon shot damaged the wall beneath “Humpty Dumpty,” causing it to fall, the Royalists were unable to repair it.
