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a long series of civil dissension—after many battles, whose issue involved the fate of thousands—after. the destruction of nearly all the English nobility in the contest between the two Roses, the decisive battle of Bosworth Field was fought on the 22d of August, 14151485 [sic], whose result was to entwine, as it was called, the white and red symbols of rivalship, and to restore peace to this unhappy unhappy country. Rh