A Nation in Conflict: The Battle of Bosworth Field
Posted on Wednesday 22nd August 2012










Further Reading
Richard the III and the Bosworth Campaign
(Hardback - 176 pages)
ISBN: 9781844152599
by Peter Hammond
Only £19.99
On 22 August 1485 the forces of the Yorkist king Richard III and his Lancastrian opponent Henry Tudor clashed at Bosworth Field in Leicestershire in one of the decisive battles of English history. Richard was defeated and killed. Henry took the crown as Henry VII, established the Tudor dynasty and set English history on a new course. For the last 500 years this, the most famous battle of the Wars of the Roses, has excited passionate interest and continuing controversy.
Peter Hammond, in a vivid and…
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