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Excerpt from Ten Tudor Statesmen
Of success, but the party was crushed at the battles Of Barnet and Tewkesbury, and the line was quenched by the deaths Of Henry VI. And his son. Yorkists and Lancastrians alike fixed upon young Henry Tudor as being now the representative Of John Of Gaunt; England was too dangerous a habitation for a possible claimant to the throne and the boy in his fifteenth year was successfully shipped Off by his friends to Brittany, where for twelve years he abode under the Duke's protection.
If the dynasty Of York had established itself in regular fashion - if Edward IV. Had been followed by an Edward V. As Henry IV. Had been followed by Henry V. - there would have been little enough to fear. But Edward's brother usurped the throne by a particularly foul murder, and being on it proved himself a tyrant. Men's eyes turned to the one scion of the Plantagenets whom it was possible to set up as a claimant to the crown. If he could be set on the throne with Edward's daughter at his side, the rival factions of York and Lancaster might be stilled. The first attempt to challenge the usurper failed completely. Buckingham's plan of campaign was ruined by the ?ooding of the Severn, and by a storm which scattered the ?eet wherewith Richmond sailed from Brittany to co-operate. Henry, returning thither, had to ?ee very soon after to safer shelter in France. But it was not long before the attempt was renewed, this time with success. On Bosworth field Richard was slain, and Henry declared King Of England.
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