OTD in 1485 | The Battle of Bosworth.

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*the war of roses was one of the most significant battles in both welsh and english history - this took place in bosworth (ambion hill) in the 15th century. in august 1485, henry tudor (would-be lancastrian king) sailed across the english channel from france to the south of wales, accompanied by some 2,000 men. by the time they had crossed the border into shrewsbury, their number had more than doubled in size. king richard iii began to mobilise his yorkist army at leicester - his royal army was now 10,000 men strong, and so the king deployed his troops on a hill top just south of market bosworth. as the battle leaned first one way, and then the other, richard iii decides to bring the encounter to an end by leading a charge aimed directly at henry. upon seeing richard separated from his main force, lord stanley (henry's stepfather thomas, lord stanley) finally decided to join the battle on the side of his stepson : after his horse became trapped in boggy ground, the king continued to fight on foot before he was finally overwhelmed. richard was the plantagenet king of england & the final english monarch to be killed in the battle. the yorkist army abandoned the field, and richard's crown was brought to henry who was proclaimed king on a nearby field. the new tudor dynasty under henry tudor would now rule england for the next hundred years (henry vii, henry viii, edward vi, mary i, and finally elizabeth i). the two belligerents in this battle were the lancastrians (the house of lancaster) and the yorkists (the house of york), as well as the stanley family who remained impartial at the edge of the battlefield until they decided which side to support, with the victory falling to the lancastrians. the lancastrians suffered some 100 casualties, and the yorkists around 1,000. there were 10 battles in total in the war of roses, the battle of bosworth being the 8th. however, it was arguably the last significant battle of the war of roses.
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