war of roses
The Wars of the Roses was a series of dynastic civil wars in England fought by the rival houses of Lancaster and York between 1455 and 1485. The struggle was so named because the badge of the Lancaster's was a red rose and that the York's a white rose. The house of Lancaster was badly shaken during the Hundred Years' War ("Rose, War of the Microsoft). The Hundred Years' war is a common name given to the series of armed conflicts, broken by a number of truces and peace treaties, that were waged from 1337 to 1453 between the two great European powers at that time, England and France. The hundred Years' war resulted in the loss of thousands of lives on both sides and also in great devastation of lands and destruction of property in France. It had important political and social results in France: It helped to establish a sense of nationalism; ended all English claims to French territory; and made possible the emergence of centralized governing institutions and an absol
May, 1455, 1000 men marched out of Warwick Castle in the Midlands, the heart of England. The men wore red jackets emblazoned with the Ragged Staff emblem or livery, as it was called of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick (Alderman 9-10) It was the most famous insignia of the war in all of England. Leader of this battle for England was Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick. The only description of him, is a portrait unknown if it is his, is with a long narrow, triangular face, a hard mouth, and stern, arrogant eyes (Alderman 9) The Earl of Salisbury, though outnumbered, did a masterly job of preparing a defense. He drew up his supply carts into a ring, and behind it his men dug a deep trench for themselves, with sharpened stakes driven into the ground ahead of it. 1455 to 1487 marked the climax of a long struggle between various branches of the English royal house; the prize was the crown. The Lancastrians lost the battle. King Henry was left to die by all his me
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