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'[An] important book to grace your bookshelves.' - JoeAnn Ricca,
Founder of the Richard III Foundation, Inc. Bosworth Field saw the
two great dynasties of the day clash on the battlefield: the
reigning House of York, led by Richard III, against the rising
House of Tudor, led by Henry Tudor, soon to become Henry VII. On 22
August 1485 this penultimate battle in the Wars of the Roses was
fought, with the might of the Yorkists ranged against Henry Tudor's
small army. In Bosworth 1485, historian Mike Ingram describes how
they came to meet on the battlefield and how the tactics employed
by Henry Tudor and his captains eventually led to the larger
force's defeat and the death of King Richard III. Illustrated
throughout and supplemented with maps and accessible timelines,
this book explores the unfolding action and puts the reader on the
front line of this crucial battle.
This is the story of two very different men, Richard III, the last
Plantagenet King of England, and Henry Tudor and how they met in
battle on 22 August 1485 at Bosworth Field. The Battle of Bosworth,
along with Hastings and Naseby, is one of the most important
battles in English history and, on the death of Richard, ushered in
the age of the Tudors. This book, using contemporary sources,
examines their early lives, the many plots against Richard, and the
involvement of Henry's mother, Margaret Beaufort. It also offers a
new explanation for Richard's execution of William Hastings.
Despite recent portrayals as the archetypal fence-sitters, the book
also shows that the powerful Stanley family had a long standing
feud with Richard and were not only complicit in the plots against
him in the months before the battle, but probably laid the trap
that ultimately led to his death on the battlefield. It shows that
the events that climaxed at Bosworth were made possible by the
intrigues of King Louis XI of France and shows that it was not just
the fate of England that was at stake but that of France itself.
King Louis' taste for intrigue and double-dealing had earned him
the nicknames "the Cunning" and "the Universal Spider." The book
details how he spun webs of plots and conspiracies first against
Edward IV then Richard III, destabilised England, and created a
platform for Henry's invasion: policies that were continued by his
daughter, Anne de Beaujeu, after Louis death. This was also a time
of revolution in warfare, so the book examines English and European
way of war at the time and how it affected the outcome at Bosworth.
Then using the latest archaeology and contemporary sources it
reconstructs the last hours of Richard III, where the battle took
place, and how the battle unfolded using step by step maps and an
order of battle for the day. It finally looks at the aftermath of
the battle and how Yorkist resistance to the new regime continued
into the reign of Henry VIII.
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