Battle of Blore Heath

Battle of Blore Heath
Part of the Wars of the Roses
Date23 September 1459
Location
Blore Heath, Staffordshire, England
Result Yorkist victory[1]
Belligerents
House of York House of Lancaster
Commanders and leaders
Earl of Salisbury
Sir Thomas Neville
Sir John Neville
Baron Audley 
Baron Dudley Surrendered[2]
Strength
5,000[3] 10,000[4]
Casualties and losses
1,000[5] 2,000[6]

The Battle of Blore Heath took place during the English Wars of the Roses on 23 September 1459, at Blore Heath, Staffordshire. Blore Heath is a sparsely-populated area of farmland two miles east of the town of Market Drayton in Shropshire, and close to the village of Loggerheads, Staffordshire.

  1. ^ Trevor Royle, Lancaster Against York: The Wars of the Roses and the Foundation of Modern Britain, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 161.
  2. ^ Anthony Goodman, The Wars of the Roses:Military Activity and English Society, 1452–97, (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981), 27.
  3. ^ Michael Hicks, The Wars of the Roses, (Yale University Press, 2010), 143.
  4. ^ Ralph A. Griffiths, The Reign of King Henry VI, (University of California Press, 1981), 820.
  5. ^ A Global Chronology of Conflict: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East, Vol. II, ed. Spencer C. Tucker, (ABC-CLIO, 2010), 346.
  6. ^ Trevor Royle, Lancaster Against York: The Wars of the Roses and the Foundation of Modern Britain, 161.

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