Images of Towton

At the edge of the Lancastrian lines Geoffrey Richardson comments: "This shows the area immediately to the right of the panorama. This semi-ravine protected Lancaster's right flank in the battle's early stages, but proved a death-trap for the tired army of the red rose after Norfolk intervened on the far right of the Yorkist force and drove Somerset's men back and pivoting on their own right, twisting them across the field, and down the snow covered slopes to the flooded Cock Beck."

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