wars of the roses in English

noun
1
the 15th-century English civil wars between the Houses of York and Lancaster, represented by white and red roses respectively, during the reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV, and Richard III. The struggle was largely ended in 1485 by the defeat and death of the Yorkist king Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth and the accession of the Lancastrian Henry Tudor (Henry VII), who united the two houses by marrying Elizabeth , daughter of Edward IV.

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1. It was destroyed during the Wars of the Roses between 1455 and 1485.

2. 27 A: the wars of the roses dealt a death blow to feudalism in england.

3. The Tudor rose was adopted as a national emblem of England around the time of the Wars of the Roses as a symbol of peace.

4. So it was just a month or so ago with Andy Callan’s Never Mind the Billhooks (NMB), a small battle game covering the Wars of the Roses

5. She became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1963 and started her career there as Joan of Arc in The Wars of The Roses (1962–64).

6. But the Wars of the Roses, like the fiction they inspired, show us that victories can be uncertain, alliances unstable, and even the power of Kings as fleeting as the seasons.

7. It is the last battle of the Wars of the Roses Timeline of British history History of England History of Ireland History of Northern Ireland History of Scotland History of Wales History of the British Isles Britain in the Middle Ages Timeline 1400–1499 from Timeref.com Timeline 1300–1399 from Timeref.com Timeline 1200–1299 from Timeref.com Timeline 1100–1199 from Timeref.com Timeline 1000–1099 from Timeref.com