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He was among the handsomest of a line of kings noted for its good-looks.
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He also had the gift of resiliency: he took misfortune in stride as readily as success and always found a way to turn-the-tables on his enemies. While not in the same category of other great Plantagenet kings such as Richard the Lionheart or Edward Longshanks, he won nearly every battle he commanded in, often against superior enemy forces.
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Edward was an accomplished amateur commander, who provided determined and aggressive leadership. Edward secured his throne and brought the War of the Roses to a close for the remainder of his 12 years on the throne by victory over the Lancastrians at the subsequent Battle of Tewkesbury, on. At the Battle of Barnet on 14 April 1471 Edward defeated Warwick, and the Earl was killed in the subsequent rout. With the aid of his brother-in-law, the Duke of Burgundy, he raised a force and returned to England to reclaim his throne. Edward fled to Flanders, accompanied by his younger brother Richard, Duke of Gloucester (the future Richard III). Edward found himself driven from the throne when his great vassal and right-hand-man, Warwick, turned against him joining the Lancastrians and restoring Henry VI briefly to the throne in 1470.
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Albans on17 February 1461, their fortunes were in sharp decline. Though the Lancastrians would defeat Edward’s chief supporter, Richard Earl of Warwick (the Kingmaker) at the Second Battle of at St. Edward was declared King in March 1461 after capturing London. Becoming leader of his faction upon the execution of his father after the Yorkist defeat at the Battle of Wakefield in 1460 he reversed his family’s fortunes by defeating the Lancastrians at the Battles of at Northampton on 7 July 1460, at Mortimer’s Cross on 2–3 February 1461 and at Towton the following month. Despite having most of the great nobles against them, York triumphed under the leadership of Edward. The result was the War of the Roses, a civil war that raged intermittently between the nobility for 32 years. Henry was the third king of the Lancastrian-branch of the royal family and their claim to the throne was technically weaker than that of the House of York. A branch of the Plantagenet royal family, the House of York found itself in a power struggle over the Protectorate of England during the reign of King Henry VI when that king experience a period of madness. But that is the fun of lists: to stimulate thought and conversation!Įdward was born in 1442, the second son of Richard Duke of York. Some will of course take issue with the order in which I rate these, in itself an obviously subjective selection.
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The possible candidates for this list are so great and varied that many great commanders had to be overlooked, rated lower than those here. This is a period of increasing military professionalism, with many of the pioneers and great innovators of modern war taking the stage. During this 250 year period of history, the advent and integration of gunpowder weapons (“firepower”) on the battlefield reaches its fruition replacing shock-and-melee weapons and tactics as the dominant force on the field. While some scholars would quibble with this broader time scope, it works very well militarily. This time, we tackle the difficult period of the Renaissance defined here as the period from the second-half of the 15th century through the 17th century. Once again, Deadliest Blogger presents its list of Greatest Commanders of history.