A Mnemonic To Remember The Battles Of The Wars Of The Roses

Article from page 12 of Dickon Independent issue 51

All boys naughty won’t memorise all those horrid hateful battles to Bosworth.

[St] Albans, Blore Heath, Northampton, Wakefield, Mortimer’s Cross, [St] Albans 2, Towton, Hedgeley Moor, Hexham, Barnet, Tewkesbury, Bosworth.

This mnemonic is in “To Serve Them All My Days”, by R. E. Delderfield, who knew his stuff and was a bit of a Ricardian.

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