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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 Yorkists led by Salisbury and Warwick but Warwick was able to enter the town through an unguarded spot and attack the flanks of the Lancastrian barricades. Although this battle was small it left the Duke o...' },
{'id':3537,'gmid':278,'date':'1458','title':'Warwick fights several naval battles','dets':'England\'s naval power was weak and the waters between France and England were filled with pirates. Sandwich had been attacked by the French the year before. To put an end to this problem, the Earl of Warwick, the Captain of Calais, commanded a fleet of ships to patrol the English Channel. His fleet attacked and captured Spanish and Genoese ships talking prisoners and treasure. This made the Ear...' },
{'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 king and a weak Yorkist army was defeated. Richard Duke of York and his younger son escaped and fled to Ireland while Salisbury, Warwick and Edward of March (later Edward IV) fled to Calais.' },
{'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.' },
{'id':3538,'gmid':197,'date':'Jul 5 1460','title':'The Earls of Warwick and March leave London','dets':'Accompanied by a large army of Yorkist supporters, the Earl of Warwick and Edward, the Earl of March left London and marched towards Northampton where the King was staying.' },
{'id':1400,'gmid':170,'date':'Jul 10 1460','title':'Battle of Northampton','dets':'The Lancastrians\'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 the Earl of Warwick wanted to talk but the Lancastrians led by the Duke of Buckingham wanted to fight. Although the Lancastrians had less men than the Yorkists, they did have control of a stronge...' },
{'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 side. The Yorkists were defeated and Warwick escaped. The King, who had been travelling with the Yorkists, was freed and he was reunited with his wife and son.' },
{'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.' },
{'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 battle lasted many hours until the Lancastrians\'s line was broken. Fleeing into a river many of the Lancastrians were drowned due to their heavy armour and the rest were killed by the pursuing Yorkists.' },
{'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.' },
{'id':2130,'gmid':235,'date':'Jul 1463','title':'Queen Margaret returns to France','dets':'Warwick took an army north to deal with the new threat from Queen Margaret. The Yorkists again proved too powerful for the Lancastrians and with her invasion plans in ruin Margaret decided to return to France. She took Prince Edward with her.' },
{'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 reign Edward IV gave John Neville, Lord Montagu, the title of Earl of Northumberland and George Neville became the Archbishop of York.' },
{'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 defeated by a combined rebel army led by Robin of Redesdale and the Earl of Warwick who had returned from France. The battle took place at Edgecote near Banbury. Sir William Herbert and his brothe...' },
{'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 with Sir Robert near Stamford in Lincolnshire. In the battle known as Empingham (or Lose-Coat), Sir Robert was captured and confessed that the rebellion had been master-minded by the Earl of Warwic...' },
{'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) to combine forces and attempt to over through Edward. Warwick and Margaret met on 22 July at Anger Cathedral to put their differences aside and to agree on a course of action.' },
{'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 and was turned upon by John Neville, Warwick\'s brother. Although John Neville had accepted Edward as King, Edward had removed John\'s title of Earl of Northumberland earlier in the year and given it t...' },
{'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.' },
{'id':1735,'gmid':197,'date':'Apr 11 1471','title':'London opens its gates to Edward and the Yorkists','dets':'The Earl of Warwick was in Coventry and apparently unwilling to confront Edward, so Edward and Richard marched south to London. London was under the control of Warwick\'s brother, George Neville the Archbishop of York, but the Londoners were Yorkists and they welcomed the return of their true king. Once inside the city Edward had the Archbishop arrested and along with King Henry VI put in the Towe...' },
{'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 Earl of Oxford were able to get around the Yorkists commanded by Lord Hastings. Hastings\' men fled back to London with Oxford\'s men in hot pursuit. On the other side of the battle the Yorkists, led b...' },
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