Conflict: War of the Roses
Combatants: Lancastrians vs. Yorkists
Location: England
Outcome: Lancaster victory
At Wakefield in December of 1460, the outnumbered Yorkist army of Richard of York, was defeated by Lancastrian forces under the command of Henry Beaufort. Both Richard and his oldest son were killed in the battle and the Yorkist army broken.
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The War of the Roses would rage for another fifteen years ending with the death of Richard III at Bosworth Field and the rise of the Tudor dynasty.
Henry, the Earl of Richmond, was crowned Henry VII in 1485, the first of the Tudor line of English kings.
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Sources:
Dupuy, Trevor N., Johnson, Curt, & Bongard, David L. (1992). The Harper's Encyclopedia of Military Biography. New York: Castle Books (HarperCollins).
Dupuy, R. Ernest & Dupuy, Trevor N. (1993). The Harper's Encyclopedia of Military History. New York: HarperCollins.
Eggenberger, David (1985). An Encyclopedia of Battles: Accounts of Over 1,560 Battles from 1479 B.C. to the Present. New York: Dover Publications, Inc.
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