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Our Yorkist shoulders always slump with dismay when we think of the Battle of East Stoke in 1487. With this defeat, and the death of the young Earl of Lincoln, who was regarded as the heir of Richard III, Henry Tudor was more firmly on his stolen throne.

This site is devoted to the battle and is very interesting. The little videos are effective, and the one in Panel 4 features the viewpoint of a Yorkist soldier wearing a White Boar.

The only laugh was when Henry was described as “leading” his army. The author has to be joking, of course. The Tudor maggot stayed safely in Nottingham Castle until the battle was almost over, and only then toddled along to the field to see what was going on. Oh, a brave man he.

Of course, Stoke Field wasn’t the last Henry heard of the House of York, because the Earl of Lincoln had brothers, and there were the convincing claims of Perkin Warbeck, but Stoke Field is usually regarded as the last conflict of the Wars of the Roses.