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Tewkesbury

noun
1.
The final battle of the War of the Roses in 1471 in which Edward IV defeated the Lancastrians.  Synonym: battle of Tewkesbury.






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"Tewkesbury" Quotes from Famous Books



... would advise me to find the means to enter into the said castle for mine own safeguard, and divers persons would resort unto me. None of Cadwallader's blood, he told me, should reign more than twenty-four years; and also that Prince Edward [son of Henry VI. and Margaret of Anjou, killed at Tewkesbury], had issue a son which was conveyed over sea; and there had issue a son which was yet alive, either in Saxony or Almayne; and that either he or the King of Scots should reign next after the King's Grace ...
— The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) • James Anthony Froude



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