Crossword-Solution: TOWTON 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

But, the stout Earl of Warwick leading for the young King, and the young King himself closely following him, and the English people crowding round the Royal standard, the White and the Red Roses met, on a wild March day when the snow was falling heavily, at Towton; and there such a furious battle raged between them, that the total loss amounted to forty thousand men—all Englishmen, fighting, upon English ground, against one another.

But he was equal to the occasion, and answered: ‘Ay, ay, Towton Moor; ‘twas shame to see such bloody work; and there were motherless and fatherless children, stray lambs, to be met with, weeping their little hearts out, and starving all around unless some good Christian took pity on them.’ ‘Was Hal one of these?’ asked Lady Anne.

Albans, and right evil was his face as he spoke thereof, he being then for Queen Margaret; but then he went over to King Edward, and glutted himself with slaughter at Towton, and here he calls himself Red Rose again.

The sanguinary battle of Towton, soon after his coronation, where 38,000 dead were reckoned by the heralds, confirmed his title and established his throne.

CHAPTER XX A BLIGHT ON THE WHITE ROSE Witness Aire’s unhappy water Where the ruthless Clifford fell, And when Wharfe ran red with slaughter On the day of Towton’s field.