Friday 30 March 2018

Blood Roses -Battle of Towton, 1461


March 29th 1461, perhaps the bloodiest battle in English history took place during the War of the Roses on a bleak North Yorkshire plateaux. When Lancastrian arrows fell short, Yorkist longbow men send them back with the prevailing wind, to devastating effect. The Towton Battlefield Society runs walks of the site:  www.towton.org.uk/battlefield walks from the Rockingham pub at Towton....

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