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Bosworth Field

[boz-werth]

noun

  1. a battlefield in central England, near Leicester, where Richard III was defeated and slain by the future Henry VII in 1485.



Bosworth Field

/ ˈbɒzwɜːθ, -wəθ /

noun

  1. English history the site, two miles south of Market Bosworth in Leicestershire, of the battle that ended the Wars of the Roses (August 1485). Richard III was killed and Henry Tudor was crowned king as Henry VII

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For years, historians and academics had searched for his final resting place following his death in 1485 in the Battle of Bosworth Field.

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The Battle of Bosworth Field puts an end to Richard, and Elizabeth’s eventual marriage to Henry Tudor puts an end to the war.

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His naked and battered body was carried off Bosworth Field on a horse – possibly the same horse he had lost earlier in the battle.

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Some 530 years earlier, he had been slain at the Battle of Bosworth Field - the last significant battle of the War of the Roses, a 30-year conflict for the English throne.

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None was wilder than the hypothesis that Leicester’s most valuable player was Richard III, a British monarch killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485.

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