Battle of Bosworth
At a glance:
- Series: Magill’s Guide to Military History
- Categories: Government and Politics, Royalty, Rulers, Nobility, Military History
- Subcategories: Kings, Queens, Kingdoms, Monarchy, Wars, Battles, Wars of the Roses
- Curriculum: British History, Renaissance History, Medieval History/Middle Ages
- Geographical Location: England, United Kingdom
- Date: August 22, 1485
Article abstract: Type of action: Ground battle in the Wars of the Roses. Result: Battle ended Plantagenet dynasty and gave English throne to Tudors.
In August, 1485, Henry Tudor, later Henry VII, landed in Wales and marched toward London to seize the English crown. King Richard III moved vigorously to meet Henry. One of Richard’s chief vassals, Lord Thomas Stanley, husband of Margaret Beaufort and thus Henry Tudor’s stepfather, refused to respond to his sovereign’s call, though Stanley did bring his troops to the battlefield of Bosworth, in central...
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