The Battle of Boroughbridge was a battle fought between a group of rebellious barons and King Edward II of England, near Boroughbridge, northwest of York.
The culmination of a long period of antagonism between the king and Thomas, Earl of Lancaster,...
After the First Battle of St Albans in 1455, an uneasy peace held in England. Attempts at reconciliation between the houses of Lancaster and York enjoyed marginal success. However, both sides became increasingly wary of each other and by 1459 were...
The Battle of Barnet was a decisive engagement in the Wars of the Roses, a dynastic conflict of 15th-century England.
The military action, along with the subsequent Battle of Tewkesbury, secured the throne for Edward IV...
The Battle of Bosworth Field (or the Battle of Bosworth) was the penultimate battle of the Wars of the Roses, the civil war between the House of Lancaster and the House of York that raged across England in the latter half of the 15th century...
The site of the battle is high ground in Adwalton (now commonly considered to be part of Drighlington) near Bradford, which is now in an area of rural-urban fringe. Parts of the site are protected as "green belt" or other types of open space...