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Battle of Towton

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

United Kingdom

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Towton (1461), part of the Wars of the Roses. Yorkists defeated Lancastrians.

Belligerents2

Yorkists
Lancastrians

Conflict graph

PART OFWars of the Roses

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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Cite as: Battle of Towton (1461). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-towton · Sources & methodology