The Library of Historic Characters And Famous Events of All Nations And All Ages
The Library of Historic Characters And Famous Events of All Nations And All Ages
Spofford Ainsworth Rand
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He rode through the army, giving them comfortable words entirely armed, all save his helmet ; and the long golden hair that witnessed to his Plantagenet ancestry, flowing down to his shoulders. The soldiers closed their helmets and shook their bills ; the archers strung their bows and "frushed " their arrows. Bach side stood ready for the last of the hundred battles of the Plantagenets. Richmond moved first, so as to bring the right flank of his army alongside of the swamp, and prevent Richard'...s long line from closing upon that side, and besides so as to bring the August sun on the backs instead of the faces of his men. They seem to have waited for a charge from the enemy ; but as none was made, Oxford resolved to make a sudden and furious dash at the centre, where Norfolk was in command. The fight- ing was hot and vehement, and the small band of Lancastrians must have been beaten off, but that the Earl of Northumberland, in the second line, never stirred to the aid of Norfolk. The duke went down, his son, the Earl of Surrey, surrendered ; and the Mowbray banner was down, vii 15 226 HISTORIC CHARACTERS AND FAMOUS EVENTS.
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