 From 1996 , the website of the Colchester tourist board attributed the origin of the rhyme to a cannon recorded as used from the church of St Mary @-@ at @-@ the @-@ Wall by the Royalist defenders in the siege of 1648 . In 1648 , Colchester was a walled town with a castle and several churches and was protected by the city wall . The story given was that a large cannon , which the website claimed was colloquially called Humpty Dumpty , was strategically placed on the wall . A shot from a Parliamentary cannon succeeded in damaging the wall beneath Humpty Dumpty which caused the cannon to tumble to the ground . The Royalists ( or Cavaliers , " all the King 's men " ) attempted to raise Humpty Dumpty on to another part of the wall , but the cannon was so heavy that " All the King 's horses and all the King 's men couldn 't put Humpty together again " . Author Albert Jack claimed in his 2008 book Pop Goes the Weasel : The Secret Meanings of Nursery Rhymes that there were two other verses supporting this claim . Elsewhere , he claimed to have found them in an " old dusty library , [ in ] an even older book " , but did not state what the book was or where it was found . It has been pointed out that the two additional verses are not in the style of the seventeenth century or of the existing rhyme , and that they do not fit with the earliest printed versions of the rhyme , which do not mention horses and men . 
 From 1996 , the website of the Colchester tourist board attributed the origin of the rhyme to a cannon recorded as used from the church of St Mary @-@ at @-@ the @-@ Wall by the Royalist defenders in the siege of 1648 . In 1648 , Colchester was a walled town with a castle and several churches and was protected by the city wall . The story given was that a large cannon , which the website claimed was colloquially called Humpty Dumpty , was strategically placed on the wall . A shot from a Parliamentary cannon succeeded in damaging the wall beneath Humpty Dumpty which caused the cannon to tumble to the ground . The Royalists ( or Cavaliers , " all the King <a href='null_genetive' title='1'><mark>'s</mark></a>men " ) attempted to raise Humpty Dumpty on to another part of the wall , but the cannon was so heavy that " All the King <a href='null_genetive' title='2'><mark>'s</mark></a>horses and all the King <a href='null_genetive' title='3'><mark>'s</mark></a>men couldn 't put Humpty together again " . Author Albert Jack claimed in his 2008 book Pop <a href='uninflect' title='4'><mark>Goes</mark></a> the Weasel : The Secret Meanings of Nursery Rhymes that <a href='dey_it' title='5'><mark>there</mark></a> <a href='uninflect' title='6'><mark>were</mark></a> two other verses supporting this claim . Elsewhere , he claimed to <a href='been_done' title='7'><mark>have</mark></a> found them in an " old dusty library , [ in ] an even older book " , but did not state what the book was or where it was found . It <a href='been_done' title='8'><mark>has</mark></a> been pointed out that the two additional verses <a href='negative_concord' title='9'><mark>are</mark></a> <a href='negative_concord' title='10'><mark>not</mark></a>in <a href='None' title='11'><mark>the</mark></a><a href='negative_concord' title='12'><mark>style</mark></a> of the seventeenth century or of the existing rhyme , and that they do not fit with the earliest printed versions of the rhyme , which do not mention <a href='negative_concord' title='13'><mark>horses</mark></a> and men . 
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