The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I., Part C.

Part C.

HENRY VII. TO MARY

CHAPTER XXIV.

HENRY VII.

{1485.} THE victory which the earl of Richmond gained at Bosworth was entirely decisive; being attended, as well with the total rout and dispersion of the royal army, as with the death of the king himself. Joy for this great success suddenly prompted the soldiers, in the field of battle, to bestow on their vi...