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Visits to Fields of Battle, in England, of the Fifteenth Century

Richard Brooke

出版	Independently Published, 2018-10-27
主題	Education / History
ISBN	172914568X9781729145685
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ke8OzAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

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To which are added, some miscellaneous tracts and papers upon archaeological subjects.Richard Brooke's account of some of the most famous and important battles in the war of the roses provides insight into that war and the military tactics of the time."In the course of the fifteenth century, England experienced, in a lamentable degree, the sad effects of internal discord, and the miseries caused by the conflicts of adverse factions.It is scarcely possible, for historians to point out, in the annals of any country in Europe, in the feudal ages, deeds of violence and bloodshed, of a more appalling nature, than those which the chroniclers have recorded, as having occurred in England, during the period which intervened between the years 1400 and 1500--a period memorable for the sanguinary wars of York and Lancaster. During the continuance of those disastrous conflicts, thousands of brave men perished in arms, the axe of the executioner was seldom idle, great numbers of the nobility and gentry lost their lives in the field or upon the scaffold, property was usurped in consequence of wholesale confiscations, numberless innocent lives were sacrificed, and many happy homes were outraged."