Towton, 1461 - Britain's Bloodiest Battle - Wars of the Roses

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📢 Narrated by David McCallion
🎼 Music:
Epidemic Sounds
Filmstro
All this scoring action - Kevin MacLeod
📚 Sources:
Christopher Gravet & Graham Turner - Towton 1461: England’s Bloodiest Battle (2003)
Philip A. Haigh - From Wakefield to Towton: The Wars of the Roses (2001)
Edward Hall, Chronicle
Michael Hicks - The Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485 (2003)
John Sadler - Towton: The Battle of Palm Sunday Field, 1461 (2011)
#history #documentary #medieval

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Some of the skeletons at Towton showed up to at least 20 injuries done, it must have been a BRUTAL battle.

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On the first day of the Battle of the Somme, Britain lost 20K soldiers killed. Machine guns, poison gas, flamethrowers, planes and massive artillery. This battle, 500 years prior, lost 28K killed. With just bows, spears and swords. A bloody massacre, that has still never been topped as our bloodiest day.

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During ww2, In the battle of Rhezev , soviets lost 600,000 men and women in the first four and an half days. Soviets consider it a great success since it was able to divert nazi reinforcements heading towards Stalingrad , ultimately resulting the victory of the soviets 5 months later.

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The magnates present at the battle on the Lancastrian side were: Duke of Somerset, Duke of Exeter, Son of the Duke of Buckingham, Earl of Northumberland, Earl of Devon, Earl of Wiltshire & Ormond, Viscount Beaumont, Baron Moleyns & Hungerford, Baron Dacre, Baron Clifford, Baron Neville, Baron Rivers, Baron Welles, Baron Willoughby, Baron Ros, Baron Richemont, Baron Maulay, Baron Codnor, Baron Fitzhugh and Bishop of Carlyle. 7 rich Knights. Scottish mercenaries and Militia from York. The magnates on the Yorkist side were: Duke of York (Edward IV), Duke of Norfolk, Duke of Suffolk, Earl of Warwick & Salisbury, Son of the Earl of Arundel, Viscount Bourchier, Baron Fauconberg, The men of Baron Fitz Walter (killed at Ferrybridge), Baron Stanley, Baron Grey, Baron Clinton, Baron Dudley, Baron Scrope of Bolton. 8 rich Knights and Esquires. Kentish men raised by commission of array. That's 1 King, 4 Dukes, the son of 1 Duke, 4 Earls, the son of 1 Earl, 2 Viscounts, 18 Barons and the men of 1 Baron. Edward IV was the Duke of York, the Earl of March, the Earl of Cambridge, and the Earl of Ulster, making him the most powerful man on the battlefield.

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@@HistoryMarche The tenses were all over the place though (a consistent problem lately), constantly switching between present and past. Also, too much waffle at the beginning of your videos lately (we're talking minutes of it), to presumably draw out the video length and get more ad money?

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The moment i saw those red cavalry units in the forest after you mentioned Edward's father and brother died on an ambush supposedly devised byba former ally i thought "man, Edward's not gonna like this"

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I live in Wakefield and the two biggest battlefields in the uk are on my doorstep basically, Towton and the English civil War battlefield of Marston Moor. A wealth of history all around. Excellent programme and topic with amazing narration, top notch

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That fact %3 of all of England was there, basically %6 of all males. Blew my mind. I love learning new stuff. Thank you

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Cersei Lannister is inspired by Margaret of Anjou to a degree... George RR Martin takes a lot of the York vs. Lancaster history in A Song of Ice and Fire

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Unfortunately they don't know who should be black. Edward, or Margaret. I would personally make Margaret, and she would lose because of patriarchy and racism. Also she would lead from the front, and Edward as white male would be hiding in the back

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Excellent as always. Bloody Meadow was at the end of the battle rather than the main plain it was fought on but you're right that Towton is famous for it, as is Tewkesbury. You might want to edit the graphics a little - you have Towton as Townton and half of Norfolk has disappeared into The Wash when Edward is marching north. But that aside, superbly put together once again.

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That's because prior to the 17th century drainage schemes there was a lot more land under water. The sea came a lot further inland. There was salt Marsh, freshwater Marsh and Islands in-between. The map used represents this very well. It thus shows the terrain that armies had to deal with at the time. If, for example, you used a modern map and then showed Norfolk's Company marching to say Bury St Edmunds before turning northward, you would wonder why they hadn't just gone via Boston, a much shorter route.

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The tension building at the start of this is unreal! Was on the edge of my seat me

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You can absolutely see where Game of Thrones got so much of its inspiration from, bloody, brutal stuff.

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Years ago I had the honour of attending a private reception at the Royal Armouries museum in Leeds. The curators brought up the beautiful gold and jewel encrusted ceremonial mace of Edward IV. Then I had the honour of actually handling the plain iron battle mace reputedly swung by the King at Towton. The weapon was perfectly balanced and sat easily in my hand. You could do serious damage with it with minimal effort. I’ll never forget that.

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Beautifully done. As always

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Townton is so lovely this time of year. Do you think they have any cheese wheels in at the corner market?

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Mmm, cheese wheels...

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I live very close to this battlefield visit it at night every so often you will hear sword on Steele

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You can also top up your longbow arrow collection.......

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@@jasondonaldson7412 I find it funny that our country hasn't really changed in 500 years. I was following the march of Norfolk's men in this video with a real (present day) map on google of the same, it has all the same names, same roads even in the exact same places. Not sure if the artist whom does the maps is doing it from historic maps or not. But if so, that is incredible (to me) anyways, we haven't really changed.

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Great as always. Great narrative and narration

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Baron Fauconberg was a strategic genius! Sounds like he carried the entire campaign!

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Maybe one of the most epic battles in history. The scale and the stakes are so massive it seems more like something out of a fantasy novel than an actual historic occurence. No wonder it inspired ASoIaF.

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no cap it felt like George RR Martin copied this battle and turned it into the battle of bastards

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Masterpiece video!!! Thank you.

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Excellent video!

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As someone wanting to learn more about the war of roses this is helping allot thanks man

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Well done as always.

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What a marvelous video 👌👏👏. I was absolutely pumped with the narrator and the arc of this story. This was better than a feature film.

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Towton was actually 3 battles, Ferrybridge and Dintingdale also rather than just the one seperate battle at Towton. Well worth reading what Tim Sutherland has written about the battle, he's probably the country's foremost expert on the battle

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As for the beginning , what follows it , and the last part of the battle I only say , wow ! what a battle ! The script of the narration was very good , and the narration itself also , excellent.

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It is easy to forget how many battles were fought by men who just wanted to go home.

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I hope Edward found some peace being able to lay his family to rest. I can't imagine the rage he must have felt.

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