February
27
/ 2019
The Battle of Towton was the largest, longest battle on English soil. Thousands of people died in the Wars of the Roses, but this10-hour battle was particularly deadly. It’s believed the day of fierce fighting in the mud destroyed a generation, leaving a longer list of the dead than any other engagement in the islands’ history. Evidence for the terrors of this event were brought to light again in a 2015 post-mortem of a man, believed to have been a mounted knight, who died in the battle. Post-Mortem of the Mounted Knight “The skeleton shows some extensive injuries,” Sarah Maltby, director of the York Archaeological Trust, told Culture 24. “He has a stab wound to his left foot, which shattered
