The Bloodiest Battle in English History — And It Was a Sunday

The Bloodiest Battle in English History — And It Was a Sunday
On Palm Sunday, 1461, two armies met in a snowstorm in Yorkshire. By nightfall, twenty-eight thousand men were dead. It remains the bloodiest battle ever fought on English soil. The Battle of Towton was the climax of the Wars of the Roses — a civil war between the houses of York and Lancaster over the English throne. On one side: an eighteen-year-old who had just proclaimed himself king. On the other: the army of a queen who would stop at nothing to protect her son's crown. What followed was ten hours of hand-to-hand combat in a blinding snowstorm. When the line broke, thousands drowned in a river trying to escape. Mass graves found in 1996 confirmed what the chronicles described — skulls split open, men struck eight times in the head, bodies tangled together in the mud for five hundred years. George R.R. Martin has called the Wars of the Roses "the single greatest historical inspiration" for Game of Thrones. The Battle of Towton is the real event behind the fiction — Stark is York, Lannister is Lancaster, and 28,000 men died on a single frozen field 🔔 Subscribe @CinderedPast for untold history #history #towton #warsoftheroses #medieval #battle #england #documentary #darkhistory #1461
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