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CHAPTER XII.
THE WARS OF THE ROSES.—1422 TO 1461.
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EDWARD IV.
1. The civil wars may be said to have lasted thirty years, from the first battle at St. Alban's, in 1455, to the battle of Bosworth, in 1485; for
