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{'id':1415,'gmid':168, 'date':'May 22 1455','title':'Battle of St. Albans','dets':'The King had by his side at St. Albans the Dukes of Somerset and Buckingham, Lords Pembroke, Northumberland and Devon and around 2,000 Lancastrian men. They tried to hold the town against the... (more)' },
{'id':1420,'gmid':171, 'date':'Oct 12 1459','title':'Battle of Ludford Bridge','dets':'The Earl of Warwick with a force from Calais reached Ludlow and the combined army of the Yorkists attacked the King\'s army at Ludford Bridge near Ludlow. The men from Calais refused to fight their... (more)' },
{'id':1475,'gmid':211, 'date':'Jun 26 1460','title':'Earls of March and Warwick land in England','dets':'Once the Yorkist army had secured Sandwich the Earls of March and Warwick arrived from Calais. They had a force of around 2,000 and the support of the Kentish men. (more)' },
{'id':1400,'gmid':170, 'date':'Jul 10 1460','title':'Battle of Northampton','dets':'The Lancastrian\'s Court was in Coventry at the time of the Yorkist rebels entering London. When news reached them, the Lancastrians moved south to Northampton to meet the rebels. The Yorkists led by... (more)' },
{'id':1901,'gmid':168, 'date':'Feb 17 1461','title':'Second Battle of St. Albans','dets':'The Lancastrians army led by the Queen met the Yorkist army led by Warwick at St. Albans. The Yorkist army was split in two and during the battle sections of the Yorkists defected to the Queen\'s... (more)' },
{'id':1900,'gmid':197, 'date':'Feb 27 1461','title':'Yorkists enter London','dets':'Edward and Warwick were allowed to enter the city of London. The citizens of London had refused to let the Queen enter and so she returned north with the King. (more)' },
{'id':1922,'gmid':165, 'date':'Mar 29 1461','title':'Battle of Towton','dets':'This was the bloodiest battle of the War of the Roses and was fought in a snowstorm at Towton in Yorkshire. Both the Lancastrian and Yorkist armies were large having possibly 40,000 men each. The... (more)' },
{'id':2493,'gmid':2, 'date':'Mar 1463','title':'Northumbrian castles fall to Lancastrians','dets':'Sir Ralph Percy, the constable in charge of Bamburgh and Dunstanburgh castles, defected and allowed the Lancastrians to take control. Alnwick Castle fell to the Lancastrians shortly afterwards. (more)' },
{'id':1711,'gmid':163, 'date':'May 1464','title':'Battle of Hexham','dets':'The Nevilles defeated the last of the Lancastrian forces near Hexham and executed the rebels including Henry Beaufort the Duke of Somerset. In recognition of their contribution to the security of his... (more)' },
{'id':1398,'gmid':158, 'date':'Jul 26 1469','title':'Battle of Edgecote','dets':'Edward\'s army was insufficient to deal with the rebels alone and he had moved them to Nottingham to wait for a larger army to join them led by Sir William Herbert. Pembroke\'s army was attacked and... (more)' },
{'id':1723,'gmid':162, 'date':'Mar 12 1470','title':'Lincolnshire rebellion','dets':'A rebellion had begun in Lincolnshire early in the year and had been mostly been dealt with by Edward, but Sir Robert (Welles ?) had escaped capture and was still on the run. Edward finally caught up... (more)' },
{'id':1725,'gmid':320, 'date':'Jul 22 1470','title':'Warwick and the Lancastrians','dets':'Louis XI, the French King devised a plan to remove Edward IV from the English throne. Louis persuaded the Earl of Warwick (a Yorkist) and Margaret of Anjou the exiled wife of Henry VI (a Lancastrian)... (more)' },
{'id':1727,'gmid':293, 'date':'Sep 13 1470','title':'Warwick lands in England','dets':'The Earl of Warwick landed at Dartmouth in Devon accompanied by the Lancastrian Earl of Oxford and Jasper Tudor, the half-brother of Henry VI. Edward was in the north at the time of Warwick\'s return... (more)' },
{'id':1729,'gmid':127, 'date':'Oct 1470','title':'Henry restored as King','dets':'Henry VI was released from the Tower of London by the Earl of Warwick and crowned King of England for the second time. (more)' },
{'id':1735,'gmid':197, 'date':'Apr 11 1471','title':'London falls to Edward','dets':'The Earl of Warwick was in Coventry and apparently unwilling to confront Edward, so Edward marched south to London. London was under the control of Warwick\'s brother, George Neviile the Archbishop of... (more)' },
{'id':1736,'gmid':161, 'date':'Apr 14 1471','title':'The Battle of Barnet','dets':'The Earl of Warwick had left Coventry to confront Edward. The armies met at Barnet just north of London in thick fog. The two battle lines overlapped and Warwick\'s Lancastrian men commanded by the... (more)' },
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