The Battle of Bosworth, Monday 22nd August 1485, saw the armies of the Lancastrian and Yorkist sides clash, though not for the last time (Stoke Field), but certainly as the most significant moment in the Wars of the Roses, with the Plantagenet dynasty permanently giving way to the Tudors - a true monarchical crossroads for the nation that would reverberate for generations to come.

This project is focused on bringing a Bosworth scenario to the table, which is surprisingly not a straightforward task in terms of both deployment and orientation of the armies.

[Photo right - King Richard III with Sir Percival Thirwall]. 

Over recent decades, the site of the battle was thought to have been centred upon  Ambion Hill, to the extent that the Local Authority established a visitor centre there. More recent archaeology has established the battlefield to be some two miles distant from Ambion Hill and later authors have adjusted the narrative to accord with that. 

However, two books that I recently bought to set about researching the battle, do focus on the new location, but orientate their armies differently, one with the furrows in the fields and one against them (a 90˚ difference)!

Add to this the speculation on how the two armies actually formed up and the importance of exactly where the Stanley contingents were stationed, then despite progress on fixing the battle location, we are still hostage to 'best guess' on deployment, which in one sense just makes the scenario research a whole lot more engaging.

My armies are mostly built and flagged for the 1471 conflict, reflecting the loyalties of Lords to either Lancaster or York at that time, but I won't get too bothered about that, the flags are just my eye candy rather than a source of getting hung up too much on the exactitude of 1485 patronage - the soldiers are the thing!