Earl of Salisbury Sir Thomas Neville Sir John Neville
Baron Audley † Baron Dudley [2]
Strength
5,000[3]
10,000[4]
Casualties and losses
1,000[5]
2,000[6]
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Wars of the Roses
1st St Albans
Blore Heath
Ludford Bridge
Sandwich
London (1460)
Northampton
Worksop
Wakefield
Mortimer's Cross
2nd St Albans
Ferrybridge
Towton
Piltown
Hedgeley Moor
Hexham
Edgcote
Losecoat Field
Barnet
Tewkesbury
London (1471)
Buckingham's rebellion
Bosworth Field
Stafford's & Lovell's rebellion
Stoke Field
The Battle of Blore Heath took place during the English Wars of the Roses on 23 September 1459, at Blore Heath, Staffordshire. Blore Heath is a sparsely-populated area of farmland two miles east of the town of Market Drayton in Shropshire, and close to the village of Loggerheads, Staffordshire.
^Trevor Royle, Lancaster Against York: The Wars of the Roses and the Foundation of Modern Britain, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 161.
^Anthony Goodman, The Wars of the Roses:Military Activity and English Society, 1452–97, (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981), 27.
^Michael Hicks, The Wars of the Roses, (Yale University Press, 2010), 143.
^Ralph A. Griffiths, The Reign of King Henry VI, (University of California Press, 1981), 820.
^A Global Chronology of Conflict: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East, Vol. II, ed. Spencer C. Tucker, (ABC-CLIO, 2010), 346.
^Trevor Royle, Lancaster Against York: The Wars of the Roses and the Foundation of Modern Britain, 161.
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