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Towton - The Rout by Graham Turner. The defeated Lancastrian army flees from the battlefield, down Towton Dale towards the River Cock, pursued and cut down by the victorious Yorkists. |
The Battle of Towton by Graham Turner With the wind and driving snow at their backs, the Yorkist archers shoot their final deadly volleys of armour piercing arrows into the advancing Lancastrian army while Edward IV and his knights and men-at-arms move through the ranks to meet their oncoming foe. So began the battle of Towton, the biggest and bloodiest battle fought on British soil, contested by the armies of the two rival claimants for the throne of England; Edward IV, recently acknowledged as King and keen to avenge the deaths of his brother and father, killed at Wakefield three months before, and Henry VI, whose commanders the Duke of Somerset and Earl of Northumberland also sought vengeance in the vicious cycle that had been unleashed six years earlier at St Albans. In bitter conditions on that bleak Yorkshire plateau, many thousands would die in the long, violent struggle - and eventual rout of the Lancastrian army that occurred when re-enforcements finally swung the battle in the Yorkists favour. Their decisive victory would lead to the coronation of Edward IV as the first Yorkist King of England. |
The Battle of Towton by A.W. Boardman. On Palm Sunday 1461, a bitterly contested battle was fought by two massive medieval armies for the prize of the crown of England. This work explores what drove the contending armies of York and Lancaster to fight at Towton in the longest biggest and bloodiest battle ever staged on British soil, and examines the legends surrounding the terrible encounter, including that of the rivers running red with blood. |
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