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Battle of Bosworth: tags: [geography]

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Definition:

a town in Leicestershire, near which Richard III lost both crown and life in 1485, an event which terminated the Wars of the Roses and led to the accession of the Tudor dynasty to the throne of England in the person of Henry VII.

^{Rev. James Wood. The Nuttall Encyclopaedia (1907)}
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Uses:

Baldrick: Where is this battle, then?

Blackadder: Oh, somewhere called Bosworth Field...

BBC. Blackadder season 1: The Foretelling

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I kept myself to myself and my thoughts. Mr. Wopsle died amiably at Camberwell, and exceedingly game on Bosworth Field, and in the greatest agonies at Glastonbury.

Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)

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A Blakeney had died on Bosworth field, another had sacrified life and fortune for the sake of a treacherous Stuart

Emma Orczy. The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905)