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The Wars of the Roses

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Battleground England

The Wars of the Roses

PHILIP A HAIGH

First published in 2002 by Leo Cooper
and re-printed in this format in 2014 by
P EN & S WORD M ILITARY
An imprint of PEN & Sword Books Ltd
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Barnsley, South Yorkshire
S70 2AS

Copyright Philip A Haigh, 2002, 2014

ISBN: 0 85052 825 9

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CONTENTS

Signatures of the two brothers, Edward Earl of March and Edmund Earl of Rutland, in a letter to their father, Richard Duke of York. There was just over a year difference in their ages, and they were very close. The youngest, Edmund, aged seventeen was murdered at Wakefield Bridge following the Battle of Wakefield in which their father, the Duke of York, was slain in 1460. Edward avenged their deaths at the Battle of Towton just three months later.

When I was asked to complete this work, I considered carefully the fact that instinctively, when people think of Yorkshire and the Wars of the Roses, they think only of the battle of Towton. Scarcely given a second thought, are the smaller, but no less interesting and in some cases significant battles at Wakefield and Ferrybridge.

To overcome the fact that the Wars of the Roses in Yorkshire contained not only the battle of Towton, but these other engagements too, then this work was written. It explores each in turn and allows the reader to explore yesterdays battlefields today with the aid of a tour using modern day roads and footpaths. As always, in order to describe the military aspects of the Wars of the Roses, you must first tackle the events that led up to and resulted from them and indeed their long term consequences. The reader should therefore be aware, that this is a work about military history and that therein lies the focus of this work, not the political intrigue that surrounded the battles themsleves.

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