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It was on the night before the actual battle that Lord Clifford and his company
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and Clifford, having taken off his gorget for some reason, was killed by an arrow
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This end had he, says the chronicler,
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If we leave the high-road for a few minutes, turning to the right beyond Towton, we shall be crossing the actual battlefield, the ground that was such a horrible medley of snow and blood on that Palm Sunday when
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the ground in which the Yorkists stuck the spent arrows of the Lancastrians,
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The falling snow, too,
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their sight, and the end of it was that King Henry's men turned and fled towards Tadcaster. We cannot see
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from this spot, but there on the right is the depression in the fields through which it runs. So many men were
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that day in the Cock that their comrades, it is said, crossed the stream on their dead bodies, and even the river Wharfe was red with blood. From this scene of slaughter, which
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attempted to prevent Edward of York from passing the river, and so was himself cut off from the Lancastrian army. He did actually secure the bridge. Lord Fitzwalter was keeping the passage for Edward
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but Clifford and his light-horse stole up to this spot early in the morning
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This was the beginning of the carnage of Towton. Lord Fitzwalter, hearing the racket, rose from his bed and hurried, poleaxe in hand, to join in the fray, but