Second Battle of St Albans â 17 February 1461
Detail from Graham Turnerâs Battle of st Albans.Fought on the 22nd May 1455, this was the first battle of what would become known as the Wars of the Roses. Kingmaker, Earl of Warwick, still only thirty-three, had not waited for his young ally before leaving London. With the queen far in the north, he mustered the men of Kent to…
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