Second Battle of St Albans

St Albans - Blore Heath - Ludlow - Northampton - Wakefield - Mortimer 's Cross - St Albans - Ferrybridge - Towton - Hedgeley Moor - Hexham - Edgecote Moor - Losecote Field - Barnet - Tewkesbury - Bosworth Field - Stoke

The Second Battle of St Albans was a battle during the Wars of the Roses and was discharged on February 22, 1461 near the town of St Albans. Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, had been beaten and killed in December 1460 in the Battle of Wakefield, and his eighteen year old son, Edward of March ( later King Edward IV ) was employed in the West, where twenty days before the battle had taken place of Mortimer 's Cross. This paved the way for the Lancastrians was free, which were led by Queen Margaret of Anjou south towards London.

The Lancastrians were stopped near St Albans from one of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick led the Yorkist army. Warwick could build a defensive ring with ditches and spits his men, but was surprised by the Lancastrians came from a different direction - rather than from Luton Dunstable - and was beaten.

The Lancastrians obtained while King Henry VI. , The husband of Margaret of Anjou, from Yorkscher captivity back, who had been sitting during the battle singing under a tree, but they did not use the opportunity to continue to march to London. The reasons are not clear; perhaps their reputation had preceded them as looters, and that would have caused the London to keep the gates closed.