Strategem of Lord Fauconberg at the Battle of Towton Finish:10-pack Watermarked 'J Whatman'

Watermarked 'J Whatman'

To accompany Mr Palmer's pamphlet on the Thames floods

22nd November 1973

15 from Report of the length of the pendulum at the equator

The Admiralty had issued blanket instructions that stated that escaped slaves should either be refused asylum

Strategem of Lord Fauconberg at the Battle of Towton Finish:10-pack Watermarked 'J Whatman'Strategem of Lord Fauconberg at the Battle of Towton, Yorkshire, 1461 (1864). Lord Fauconbridge (1410 1463), leading the vanguard of Edward IV's (1422 1483) Yorkist army, orders his archers to shoot volleys of arrows and then retire. The battle, the largest and bloodiest to be fought on British soil, was a resounding victory for the Yorkists over the Lancastrian army.