[blam]

GGG Ping.

[11th_VA]

Kewl - bump !

[Captain Rhino]

Can you imagine the stench of 28,000 unburied bodies - even in winter? Wonder how long it took to clear the battlefield?

[trisham]

After ten hours of combat at the battle, near Tadcaster, 28,000 men lay dead

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Wow. Do the sissies on the Left know about this?

[Bahbah]

I have to think that would have been alot of deaths for the population at the time. Really amazing.

[martin_fierro]

Taking place on Palm Sunday, March 29, 1461, the Lancastrian army was handed an enormous blow with its leader, King Henry VI, forced to flee.

Everybody's gotta have a good St. Crispin's Day speech ready to go.

[VOA]

King Richard III's chantry chapel

Chantry:
1. an endowment for the chanting of masses commonly for the founder
2. a chapel endowed by a chantry

exerpted from Websters Seventh Collegiate Dictionary

Just wanted to make sure I knew what that was.

[pierrem15]

For the strong of stomach:

http://www.bradford.ac.uk/archsci/depart/report97/towton.htm

[scouse]

The Battle of Towton took place in a snowstorm, Taking place on Palm Sunday, March 29, 1461.

Must have been one cold Spring Day. Was this during the Little Ice Age?

[wideminded]

How quickly do buried skeletons decay? It appears that some, like the skeleton of Kennewick Man, can last many thousands of years. But surely the skeletons of most people buried in that period of time have completely dissolved. It doesn't seem plausible that the skeletons of billions of dead people still lie under the ground. Yet under certain conditions, perhaps dryness or lack of oxygen, skeletons seem to last a pretty long time.

IIRC the bones of really ancient human ancestors are only preserved because of mineral infiltration.

[BenLurkin]

discovered beneath the floor of the dining room of Towton Hall

I'm thinking the place just might have had a history of hauntings.

[toddlintown]

How's their teeth?

[bilhosty]

"After ten hours of combat at the battle, near Tadcaster, 28,000 men lay dead"

depressing. very depressing. 28,000 people dead and so many hearts broken. All just so a lancasterian or a Yorkist can be King. It probably would have made no difference to the lives of the people in the grave who was King. Such a senseless waste.

[drhogan]

i think the 28,000 figure is probably inflated. it was a really tough battle, but i think i'll check out the casualty figure.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam and MartinF.

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[colorado tanker]

The War of the Roses was a real quagmire. The Times would not have approved.

[DieHard the Hunter]

Wow! I'm going to read this thread at length when I return from Honolulu. Fascinating find! Just WOW!

[spower]

Ahhh... the good 'ole days!

[ZULU]

Horay for the House of York!!!!

Stinking Lancastrians.

[Dustbunny]

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