The Battles Of St Albans

Author : Peter Burley
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473819032
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Battles of St Albans written by Peter Burley and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-09-09 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St Albans is unique in having been the site of two pivotal battles during the Wars of the Roses, yet this is the first book-length account to have been published. It offers a gripping account of the fighting, and of the politics and intrigue that led to it, and it incorporates the results of the latest research. The authors also plot the events of over 500 years ago onto the twenty-first century landscape of St Albans so that the visitor can retrace the course of each battle on the present-day ground.

Author : Andrew W. Boardman
Publisher : Npi Media Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Battle of St Albans 1455 written by Andrew W. Boardman and published by Npi Media Group. This book was released on 2006 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first battle of St Albans was a significant event in England's medieval history. What prompted Richard of York to take up arms in the first place? Where did the main action take place? This book answers these questions and discusses the theories about the battle: a battle of the Wars of the Roses where the streets ran red with blood.

Author : Andrew Boardman
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 1803993022
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book St Albans 1455 written by Andrew Boardman and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2023-03-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years the first battle of St Albans was regarded as a ‘short scuffle in the street’. A.W. Boardman, the author of Towton 1461: The Anatomy of a Battle, proves this was not the case. Indeed, the battle was unique and a significant event in England’s medieval history. The street fighting was widespread, the town was pillaged in the aftermath, Henry VI was almost killed, and the battle’s political consequences proved so problematic for both sides that parliament used official propaganda to conceal the truth. St Albans was, along with other lesser-known battles of the early 1450s, the genesis of the Wars of the Roses, and it is probably the best-documented encounter of the period. The battle heralded the beginning of an intense blood feud that fuelled the civil wars between York and Lancaster for many generations. But what really happened in the streets of St Albans on 22 May 1455? What prompted Richard Duke of York and the Neville family to rebel against Henry VI? And who were the instigators of the conflict that caused the execution and deaths of a substantial portion of England’s nobility by the end of the fifteenth century? This book answers these questions and discusses the theories about St Albans following a detailed and multi-disciplined approach. A.W. Boardman reveals the anatomy of a battle hidden beneath the streets and alleyways of this modern city and explains the wider issues of the Wars of the Roses in northern England. Illustrated throughout with contemporary images, modern photographs and specially drawn battle maps, this new and fully updated edition is a thorough examination of the sources, the terrain and the military significance of the first battle of St Albans: a battle where the streets ran red with blood.

Author : Michelle Arnosky Sherburne
Publisher : Civil War
ISBN 13 : 9781626196292
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The St. Albans Raid written by Michelle Arnosky Sherburne and published by Civil War. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The history of the Confederate raid on St. Albans, Vermont"--

Author : Cathryn J. Prince
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780786717514
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Burn the Town and Sack the Banks written by Cathryn J. Prince and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2006-09-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a dreary October afternoon, bands of Confederate raiders held up the three banks in St. Albans. With guns drawn, they herded the townspeople out into the common, sending the people of the North into panic. Operating out of a Confederate stronghold in Canada, the raiders were young men, mostly escapees from Union prison camps, who had been recruited to inaugurate a new kind of guerilla war along the Yankees' unprotected border. The raid, though bungling at times, was successful — the consequent pursuit of the rebels into Canada. The celebrity-like trial it sparked in Montreal and resulting diplomatic tensions that arose between the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain, left the Southern dream of a second-front diversion in ruins. What survived, however, is a fascinating tale of the South's desperate attempt to reverse the course of the war. Burn the Town and Sack the Banks is a tale filled with dashing soldiers, spies, posses, bumbling plans, smitten locals, lawyers, diplomats, and an idyllic Vermont town, set against the backdrop of the great battles far from the Northern border that were bringing the Civil War to its bloody conclusion.

Author : David Grummitt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857723294
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of the Wars of the Roses written by David Grummitt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wars of the Roses (c. 1455-1487) are renowned as an infamously savage and tangled slice of English history. A bloody thirty-year struggle between the dynastic houses of Lancaster and York, they embraced localised vendetta (such as the bitter northern feud between the Percies and Nevilles) as well as the formal clash of royalist and rebel armies at St Albans, Ludford Bridge, Mortimer's Cross, Towton, Tewkesbury and finally Bosworth, when the usurping Yorkist king, Richard III, was crushed by Henry Tudor. Powerful personalities dominate the period: the charismatic and enigmatic Richard III, immortalized by Shakespeare; the slippery Warwick, the Kingmaker', who finally over-reached ambition to be cut down at the Battle of Barnet; and guileful women like Elizabeth Woodville and Margaret of Anjou, who for a time ruled the kingdom in her husband's stead. David Grummitt places the violent events of this complex time in the wider context of fifteenth-century kingship and the development of English political culture.Never losing sight of the traumatic impact of war on the lives of those who either fought in or were touched by battle, this captivating new history will make compelling reading for students of the late medieval period and Tudor England, as well as for general readers.

Author : Philip Hatfield, PhD
Publisher : 35th Star Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacrifice All for the Union written by Philip Hatfield, PhD and published by 35th Star Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-21 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Captain John Valley Young personifies the body of rugged Union Army volunteers from West Virginia during the Civil War: highly resilient, stubbornly independent, and fiercely patriotic. Using Captain Young’s wartime letters to his wife, Paulina Franklin Young, and his daughters, Sarah and Emily Young, along with his diary and numerous other original soldier accounts, this book reveals the experiences of a Union soldier and his family who were truly willing to “Sacrifice All for the Union.” Young, a farmer and Methodist-Episcopalian minister prior to the Civil War, during April 1861 raised a company of Union volunteers at the strongly pro-Southern village of Coalsmouth, Virginia, (modern St. Albans, West Virginia). He was adamantly opposed to slavery, yet often expressed a bitter ire at having to fight a violent civil war because his beloved nation had thus far failed to eradicate the awful practice. While he displayed an unshakeable desire to preserve the Union, Young’s convictions were severely tested as he and his family faced constant dangers from guerillas and Confederate raids in the Kanawha Valley. Captain Young also participated in more than one hundred skirmishes and eleven major engagements in the bloody Shenandoah Valley, and at Petersburg, and Appomattox; more than any other Union officer from West Virginia. He died from tuberculosis in 1867, a sad irony after surviving some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. “…Stand firm to the good old Cause. I have just come from Charleston, and found while there that there will be a change of Commanders in the Department of [West] Virginia. The authorities feel determined that we shall have protection. But if we cannot have better protection than we have had, the country is ruined. But I assure you there will be a change for the better. I don’t know how you will get up to see me now. Well, we must bear it the best we can. Sacrifice All for the Union.” - Captain John Valley Young, Letter to his wife, February 3, 1862

Author : John A. Wagner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1576075753
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Wars of the Roses written by John A. Wagner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-07-12 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative A–Z encyclopedia of the Wars of the Roses provides accurate and concise descriptions of the major battles and events and the principal historical figures and issues involved. For centuries, historians agreed about the Wars of the Roses, seeing them as four decades of medieval darkness and chaos, when the royal family and the nobility destroyed themselves fighting for control of the royal government. Even Shakespeare got into the act, dramatizing, popularizing, and darkening this viewpoint in eight plays. Today, based on new research, this has become one of the most hotly controversial periods in English history. Historians disagree on fundamental issues, such as dates and facts, as well as interpretation. Most argue that the effects of the wars were not as widespread as once thought, and some see the traditional view of the era as merely Tudor propaganda. A few even claim that England during the late 15th century was "a society organized for peace." Historian John A. Wagner brings readers up to date on the latest research and thinking about this crucial period of England's history.

Author : Alfred Higgins Burne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Battlefields of England written by Alfred Higgins Burne and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Philip A. Haigh
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780938289906
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Military Campaigns Of The Wars Of The Roses written by Philip A. Haigh and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1997-10-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two branches of England's Royal family fought each other for supremacy over a period of thirty years from 1455 to 1485, in a series of campaigns known as the Wars of the Roses. Philip Haigh presents, for the first time in a single volume, detailed accounts of each of the fifteen major battles of the war. How the two armies maneuvered to encounter each other, their composition and tactics are all covered.