Siege of the Tower of London

When

1460

Kind

Siege

Coordinates

51.51° N, 0.08° W

Description

1460 battle in the English Wars of the Roses

1460 battle in the English Wars of the Roses

The siege of the Tower of London was an episode of the Wars of the Roses, in which adherents of the rival Plantagenet houses of Lancaster and York were pitted against each other. In June 1460, several Yorkist nobles, who had unsuccessfully rebelled against King Henry VI the year before and had fled to Calais, invaded the south east of England at Sandwich.

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