Could someone explain to me what this war was about? It was fought in the 1600's right? I dont know anything about warfare in the 1600's (except the style)
War of the Roses
Could someone explain to me what this war was about? It was fought in the 1600's right? I dont know anything about warfare in the 1600's (except the style)
Re: War of the Roses
I'd save myself the time (and showing my own mediocre amateurism) with a Wiki.Originally Posted by K COSSACK
It happens in the latter part of the 1400s, by the way, not the 1600s. That's a long way off, between the start of the Tudors (the end result of the war, so to speak), to its end.
Re: War of the Roses
The rule of England could go to the House of Lancaster, or the House of York. Lancaster got the post, and York managed to get the king locked up for insanity. Then the two sides fought each other.
War of the Roses.
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Re: War of the Roses
Yep. York and Lancaster both picked a rose to symbolize their faction, one white the other red, and fought over who would be king. I believe the Plantagenet line of kings was more or less disturbed. The King died without an heir and the Plantegenets and Warwick and all the English royal family members got themselves drawn into either the house of York or the house of Lancaster.
Long story short the last Plantegenet king dies in battle and the Plantegenet line ends. The victor of this battle, Henry Tudor, becomes king. King Henry VIII I believe.
On a side note.. my family is apparently the family the Plantagenet split from. (The first Plantagenet King, Edward Longshanks chosse a new last name as part of a PR thing a good advisor hinted at.)
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Re: War of the Roses
The 7th. The 8th is the wife-murdering one, father of Bloody Mary and Elizabeth, last of the Tudors.
Re: War of the Roses
One often hears the War of the Roses referred to as the aftergame of the Hundred Years' War played out on English soil. Anyway, it was fought with standard mid/late-1400s Medieval tactics and techniques, with the curio that both sides were using the characteristic English longbow-tactic paradigm.
The 1600s strife was the English Civil War - in many ways an English sideshow of the Thirty Years' War on a smaller scale - and was waged with "Gustavian" Early Modern pike-and-shot tactics.
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