Evening Star Newspaper, September 8, 1929, Page 138

@_IENQYYI IN 1445 HAD MARRIED MARGARET oF ANJOU, A FRENCH PRINCESS. THE ENGLISH DISLIKED (= QUEEN MARGARET " BECAUSE SHE WAS NGLAND, THIRD KING OF THE LINE OF LAN- HE FAMOUS ENGLISH "WARS OF THE ROSES, |—H {ASERIESOFCINIL. “f CONFLICTS EXTENDING (7= OVER A PERIOD OF 35 & YEARS DURING THE (5TH CENTURY,A.D, WERE E THE OUTGROWTH OF THE§ BITTER RWALRY BEWEBYy | THE POWERFUL HOLSES OF LANCASTER AND> ANT OF EDWARD I, CONSIDERED THE® QUEEN AND HIS UNPOPULAR PRIME FRENCH,AND> MINISTER AND > BECAUSE OF HER KRINSMANTHE DUKE () oo\ MARGARET ARROGANT AND OF SOMERSET. —° (1430-1462). DESPOTIC CONDUCT, ONLY WAITED FOR A FAYORABLE TO THE ENGLISH THRONE. THENRY WL (1422-1461) | (e REIGN OF THE INVALID A =i HENRY TL WITNESSED /] e LOSS OF ALL ENGLANDS POSSESSIONS IN FRANCE EXCEPY CALAIS, AND THE OUTBREAR OF THE DISASTROUS WARS OF THE ROSES. A STRONG HAND WAS LACRING WHEN IT WAS NEEDED MOST. As LONG AS THE KING AND> QUEEN HAD NO CHILDREN, QICHAR—D,PUKE OF YORK,WAS HEIR TO THE ENG~ LISH CROWN. BUT RICHARD'S HOPES OF INHERITING THE THRONE ‘ : ‘ SEEMED BLASTED WITH THE BIRTH = S e unan, prmce oF watks, W | | [[@)aruiament sewt e unropLLAR 1453, —THEN, IN 1454, THE KING, SOMERSET TOTHETOWEQ: AND> APPOINT: SUFFERING FROM A MENTAL Dis- TR, AS REECTOR, ORDER, WAS FOUND>TO BE INCAP- RICHARD VIRTUALLY RULED ENGLAND b | | MUCH TO THE CHAGRIN OF THE LAN- g CASTRIA FACTION, OR KINGS PARTY. EARTHE KINGWAS ouvmcep THAT THE TIME TO RESTORED To HEALTH. HIS FIRST ACTS — STRIKE HAD COME, RICHARD WERE TO DISMISS YORK AND EREE TOOK UP ARMS AND> MARCHED ON SOMERSET FROM THE TOWER, WiTH LONPON, DECLARING HOWEVER, THAT ALARM THE YORKISTS SAW THEIR H1S QUARREL WAS NOT WITR THE RIVALS COME AGAIN INTO POWER. KING,BUT WITH THE COURT PARTY. LA 4 @!LL ENGLAND FLAMED WITH CIviL @Aw OF THE MOST POWERFU)L Bus FIRST BATTLE (AT STALBANS N | IE]N 1460 THE DUKE OF YORKK , AFTER STRIFE, ON EVERY HAND THE NOBLES, INCLUDING THE EARL OF 1455) RESULTED IN THE DEFEAT OF THE | | A SECOND VICTORY AT NORTHAMPTON, NOBLES DREW THEIR SWORDSTO FIGHT | | WARWICIX,RNOWN IN HISTORY AS | LANCASTRIANS. SOMERSET WAS SLAIN, | | FORCED PARLIAMENT TO PROCLAIM FOR THE EMBLEMS OF THE RIVAL HOUSES| | THE IING-MAKER , EMBRACED THE THE KING CAPTURED, AND RICHARD | | HIMTHE RIGHTFUL HEIR TO THE THE RED ROSE OF LANCASTER OR CAUSE OF THE DURE OF YORK. ==¢ | | - CAUSED PARLIAMENT TO AGAIN THRONE OF ENGLAND . . THE WHITE ROSE OF YORK , — © APPOINT HIM PROTECTOR . N2>y 2EN MARGARET PROTESTED AGAINST THIS IN THE NAME OF THE YOUNG PRINCE OF WALES,, AND THE LAMCASTRIANS RENEWED THE STRUGGLE WITH THE WHITE ROSE. © H:Qur Newspaper Syndicate @T - 5 : = i @l—E QUEEN APPEALED TO THE WAREFIELD (1460) THE m— N'\'HE"Z HOUR OF TRIUMPH THE S¢oTS WHO,IN RETURN FOR THE TRIANS ROUTED THE YORKIST ES. | | RED ROSEPARTY COMMITIED MANY CESSION OF THE BORDER CASTEE RICHARD WAS SLAIN , AND HIS NGAD:{ | EXCESSES. Scores Q:yow NOBLES OF BERWICK,, AGREED YO SUPRORT WITH A PAPER CROWN STLICK ON IT WERE SENT TO'TNE BLOCK AND THEIR UPON THE WALLS OF YORK., ——® | | KEXF Op1aR: Tue WARS OF THE RaSES Caminuep. If You Save This Page h Week You Will Have a Complete History of Man.