Today In History: Battle Of Stoke
June 16th: Today in 1487 the Battle of Stoke Field ended the Wars of the Roses when Henry VII destroyed the army of John de la Pole, the Earl of Lincoln who was leading for the imposter, Lambert Simnel. This battle took place not far from where I live, but you really have to look to find the monument and there are no road signs to the field. Today it is just a farmer’s field, lord knows what bodies lay under it.
June 16th, 2005 at 10:34 am
“lord knows what bodies lay under it”
Hmmm… I’ve been led to believe that England is so (relatively) small and has been so long populated that there isn’t a square yard of it that someone hasn’t died on. And not a square foot that someone hasn’t stepped on.
June 16th, 2005 at 11:24 am
Setting a foot on, probably. Dying, not so much. Most people don’t go out to the remote bits to die. Of course there is the legendary pictish grave yard where wounded picts went off to die, but it is probably just a myth.
June 16th, 2005 at 12:23 pm
Piled parts in the Pict pit.