| Description |
1 online resource (598 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Publisher's Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; List of Maps; Abbreviations; Timeline; Dramatis Personae; Maps; Being Introductory; Chapter 1. The Art of War in the Fifteenth Century; Raising Armies; Attitudes to War; Strategy; Grand Tactics; Arms and Armour; The Arrow Storm; The Gunner's Art; The Face of Battle; Notes; Chapter 2. The Nature of Kingship and the House of Lancaster; The Nature of Kingship; The Lancastrian Administration; The Adult Rule of Henry VI 1437-1453 |
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Richard of York -- the Unlikely RebelNotes; Chapter 3. The Path to Conflict 1453-1455; Percy v. Neville; Disturbances in the North; Notes; Chapter 4. First Blood -- First St Albans 22 May 1455; The Court Party Revived; The First Battle of St Albans; Notes; Chapter 5. Blore Heath 23 September 1459 and the Rout of Ludford Bridge 12/13 October 1459; The Protectorate; Calais; Loveday; Blore Heath; Ludford Bridge; Notes; Chapter 6. Northampton 10 July 1460 and Wakefield 30 December 1460; The Yorkists in Exile; The Road to Northampton; The Battle of Northampton; The Act of Accord |
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The Road to WakefieldThe Battle; Notes; Chapter 7. Mortimer's Cross 2 February 1461; Second St Albans 17 February 1461; Mortimer's Cross; The Lancastrian March from the North; The Second Battle of St Albans; The Lancastrian Withdrawal to the North; Notes; Chapter 8. 'Palmsunday Field' -- Towton 29 March 1461; The Approach to Contact; Battle; Notes; Chapter 9. War in the North 1461-1463; The Lancastrians in Northumberland; Alarums and Excursions; The Flight of Queen Margaret; Notes; Chapter 10. Hedgeley Moor 25 April 1464 and Hexham 14 May 1464; The Road to Hedgeley Moor; The Battle of Hexham |
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The Siege of BamburghNotes; Chapter 11. The Overmighty Subject -- Warwick the Kingmaker 1464-1469; the Battles of Edgecote (26 July 1469) and Empingham (12 March 1470); Richard Neville -- 'Warwick the Kingmaker'; The Battle of Edgecote; The Battle of Empingham ('Losecote Field'); The Flight of the Conspirators; Notes; Chapter 12. The Road to Barnet 14 April 1471; The 'Re-adeption' of Henry VI; The Campaign of Barnet; The Battle; Notes; Chapter 13. Tewkesbury 4 May 1471; The Campaign of Tewkesbury; The Battle of Tewkesbury; The Bastard of Fauconberg; Notes |
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Chapter 14. 'This Sunne of York': the Yorkist Age 1471-1483The King's Rule; Clarence and Gloucester; The French Expedition of 1475; The Fall of Clarence; Gloucester, the North and Scotland; Notes; Chapter 15. 'Under the Hog' -- Richard III and Bosworth 22 August 1485; The Usurpation; Buckingham's Rebellion; Henry Tudor; The Campaign; The Battle of Bosworth; Notes; Chapter 16. Stoke Field 16 June 1487; Henry VII; Lambert Simnel; The Campaign; The Battle; Notes; Postscript: The Military Legacy; Glossary; Appendices; 1. Executions Following the Battle of Hexham |
| Summary |
If Richard III had not charged to his death at Bosworth, how different might the history of Britain have been?Beginning in 1453 and ending in 1487, The Red Rose and the White provides a gripping overview of the bitter dynastic struggle for supremacy that raged between the houses of York and Lancaster for thirty years, culminating in the dramatic events on Bosworth Field in 1485. As well as offering a comprehensive account of the campaigns, battles and sieges of the conflict, the book also assesses the commanders and men involved and considers the weapons and tactics empl |
| Notes |
2. Who were Robin of Redesdale and Robin of Holderness? |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317905189 |
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1317905180 |
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