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E4 1 establishing as king - Coggle Diagram
E4 1 establishing as king
Funding an army
Gaining money from London which was pro-yorkist
London lent a further £4000 on top of the £4500 already given
Loans from merchants and borrowing from some religious houses
Recruiting men
1461 proclaimed any lancastrians who changed sides to support e4 within 10 days would be pardoned
Able to gain lots of support from ken and east anglia
By the time he had reached Pontefract in Yorkshire he had gathered a generously estimated army of 200,000
when both men met they roughly each had 50,000 men
Battle of Towton
Two separate battles
Ferrybridge mar 28th lancastrians forced to retreat
Battle of towton
Weather was bad e4 took advantage of this
28,000 estimated dead at towton
Earl of Northumberland dead
Earl of Devon captured the next day and then executed
Earl of Wiltshire captured later and executed
Quality of Leadership
H6 absent at the battle
E4 leading his men
Quick thinking
strategy was good
Aftermath of Towton
E4 crowned king on june 28th 1461
H6 marg of anjou and the prince escaped to scot
h6 kept causing problems as gained foreign support
removal of great northern lords like northumberland and clifford