Back معركة بلور هيث Arabic Blor Hif döyüşü Azerbaijani بلور هیث دؤیوشو AZB Bitva u Blore Heath Czech Slaget på Blore Heath Danish Schlacht von Blore Heath German Batalla de Blore Heath Spanish نبرد بلور هیث Persian Bataille de Blore Heath French קרב בלור הית' HE
| Battle of Blore Heath | |||||||
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| Part of the Wars of the Roses | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| House of York | House of Lancaster | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Earl of Salisbury Sir Thomas Neville Sir John Neville |
Baron Audley † Baron Dudley  [2] | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 5,000[3] | 10,000[4] | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 1,000[5] | 2,000[6] | ||||||
The Battle of Blore Heath took place during the English Wars of the Roses on 23 September 1459, at Blore Heath, Staffordshire. Blore Heath is a sparsely-populated area of farmland two miles east of the town of Market Drayton in Shropshire, and close to the village of Loggerheads, Staffordshire.
- ^ Trevor Royle, Lancaster Against York: The Wars of the Roses and the Foundation of Modern Britain, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 161.
- ^ Anthony Goodman, The Wars of the Roses:Military Activity and English Society, 1452–97, (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981), 27.
- ^ Michael Hicks, The Wars of the Roses, (Yale University Press, 2010), 143.
- ^ Ralph A. Griffiths, The Reign of King Henry VI, (University of California Press, 1981), 820.
- ^ A Global Chronology of Conflict: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East, Vol. II, ed. Spencer C. Tucker, (ABC-CLIO, 2010), 346.
- ^ Trevor Royle, Lancaster Against York: The Wars of the Roses and the Foundation of Modern Britain, 161.