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Shrewsbury 1403: Struggle for a Fragile Crown

By Dickon Whitewood(Illustrations); Graham Turner(Illustrations)

Book information

Publisher
Osprey Publishing
ISBN
9781472826800, 1472826809
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11132040 bytes)
Series
Campaign 316
Pages
96\154
Time added
2020-09-27 11:47:32
Medieval Warfare;Military;Military History

Description

The battle of Shrewsbury in 1403 is one of the most important battles in English history. King Henry IV faced his erstwhile ally Henry Percy Earl of Northumberland in a bloody contest on a field outside the Shropshire town of Shrewsbury where two English armies, well-matched, and fighting with similar equipment and tactics, struggled in an archery duel in which the arrows "fell like leaves in Autumn," before the battle was ultimately decided in close quarter hand-to-hand combat. With his victory, Henry IV secured the Lancastrian hold on the kingdom and demonstrated the right of his bloodline to the throne.Using full-color artwork and specially commissioned battlefield maps and illustrations, this is the fascinating story of the battle without which the reign of Henry V, his wars and glorious victories against the French, and the later disastrous reign of Henry VI and subsequent Wars of the Roses could not have happened.

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