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Wars of the Roses
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  • Thus, towards the end of the eighteenth century a change came about which, if I were rewriting history, I should describe more fully and think of greater importance than the Crusades or the Wars of the Roses.†  (source)
  • Here haunted of yore the fabulous Dragon of Wantley; here were fought many of the most desperate battles during the Civil Wars of the Roses; and here also flourished in ancient times those bands of gallant outlaws, whose deeds have been rendered so popular in English song.†  (source)
  • I found by looking at his chapter headings that it meant—— 'The Manor Court and the Methods of Open-field Agriculture ....The Cistercians and Sheep-farming ....The Crusades ....The University ....The House of Commons ....The Hundred Years' War ....The Wars of the Roses ....The Renaissance Scholars ....The Dissolution of the Monasteries ....Agrarian and Religious Strife ....The Origin of English Sea-power....The Armada....' and so on.†  (source)
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