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Battle of Stoke Field

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The Battle of Stoke Field (16 June 1487) may be considered the last battle of the Wars of the Roses, since it was the last major engagement in which a Lancastrian king faced an army of Yorkist supporters. The Battle of Bosworth, two years previously, had established Henry on the throne. The Battle of Stoke Field was the decisive engagement in an attempt by leading Yorkists to unseat him in favour of the pretender Lambert Simnel.

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the Wars of the Roses

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1487-06-16

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John de Vere, Earl of Oxford n11: Colonel Martin Schwartz† n25: Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford Thomas FitzGerald of Laccagh†

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The top of Rampire Hill, the Yorkist position at the start of the battle Part of the battlefield at ground level

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Decisive Lancastrian victory

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Stoke Field - geograph.org.uk - 251279.jpg Battle of Stoke Field - geograph.org.uk - 241095.jpg

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East Stoke, Nottinghamshire, England

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Battle of Stoke Field

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The Battle of Stoke Field (16 June 1487) may be considered the last battle of the Wars of the Roses, since it was the last major engagement in which a Lancastrian king faced an army of Yorkist supporters. The Battle of Bosworth, two years previously, had established Henry on the throne. The Battle of Stoke Field was the decisive engagement in an attempt by leading Yorkists to unseat him in favour of the pretender Lambert Simnel. Though it is often portrayed as almost a coda to the major battles between York and Lancaster, it was fought between well-equipped armies of comparable size. Casualties on both sides were very much heavier than at Bosworth, in part because of the concentrated and attritional nature of the struggle. In the end, though, Henry's victory was crushing. Almost all the leading Yorkists were killed in the battle.