To help you keep track, here’s a scorecard of what we now call the Wars of the Roses or The Cousins’ War (courtesy of the novelists).  Corollary events are included.

Plucking the Red and White Roses in the Old Temple Gardens by Henry Arthur Payne (1868 – 1940) Birmingham City Art Gallery.

Date		Location		Combatants		Victor
22 May 1455		St. Albans		Richard, Duke of York, Earl of Warwick, Earl of Salisbury vs. Henry VI & Duke of Somerset		Yorkist
23 September 1459		Blore Heath		Earl of Salisbury vs. James, Lord Audley		Yorkist
13-14 October 1459		Ludlow		York, Salisbury & Warwick vs. Henry VI and Somerset. The Yorkist army retreats in the night when discover they are outnumbered. The Duke of York and his second son, Edmund Earl of Rutland escape to Ireland while the Earl of Warwick and York’s eldest son Edward, Earl of March escape to Calais.		Lancastrian
10 July 1460		Northampton		Warwick & Earl of March vs. Henry VI & Duke of Buckingham. King Henry VI is captured		Yorkist
10 October 1460		London		Duke of York claims throne at Westminister
31 October 1460				Duke of York becomes heir to King Henry VI, displacing Edward, Prince of Wales
30 December 1460		Wakefield		York vs. Somerset Richard, Duke of York is killed, his son Edmund Earl of Rutland is assassinated by Lord Clifford		Lancastrian
February 1461		Mortimer’s Cross		Earl of March vs. Earl of Pembroke Owen Tudor is executed.		Yorkist
17 February 1461		St. Albans		Earl of Warwick vs. Margaret of Anjou. King Henry VI is reclaimed by the Lancastrians		Lancastrian
27 February 1461		London		Earls of March and Warwick enter London unopposed
4 March 1461				Edward, Earl of March proclaimed King Edward IV at St. Paul’s Cross
29 March 1461		Towton		King Edward IV, Warwick, Norfolk vs. Duke of Somerset		Yorkist
28 June 1461		Westminster		King Edward IV crowned
25 April 1464		Hedgeley Moor		John Neville, Baron Montague vs. Duke of Somerset		Yorkist
15 May 1464		Linnolds		Montague vs. Somerset		Yorkist
11 July 1469		Calais, France		George, Duke of Clarence marries Isabel Neville
26 July 1469		Edgecote Field		William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke vs. Robin of Redesdale & Warwick advance party
29 July 1469		Near Coventry		King Edward IV captured by Warwick
12 March 1470		Empingham “Lose-Coat Field”		Edward IV vs. Sir Robert Welles (Warwick and Clarence)		Yorkist
13 October 1470		Westminster		King Henry VI crowned again (Readeption)
1 November 1470		Westminster		Edward, first son of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville born – future Edward V
13 December 1470		Amboise, France		Edward of Lancaster, Prince of Wales marries Anne Neville
11 March 1471		Flushing, Holland		Edward IV sails to England
14 April 1471		Barnet		Edward IV vs. Earl of Warwick Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick and his brother John Neville, Baron Montague both killed		Yorkist
4 May 1471		Tewkesbury		Edward IV vs. Duke of Somerset Edward of Lancaster killed, Margaret of Anjou captured.		Yorkist
12 May 1471		London		William Lord Fauconberg, Earl of Kent attacks with followers from Kent and Essex. Retreats at news of Edward IV’s arrival in London.
18 February 1478		London		George, Duke of Clarence executed in the Tower for treason.
25 August 1482		Saumur, France		Margaret of Anjou dies at age 53.
9 April 1483		London		King Edward IV dies
6 July 1483		London		Richard, Duke of Gloucester crowned as King Richard III
10 October 1483		Southern England		Buckingham’s Rebellion
22 August 1485		Market Bosworth		Richard III vs. Henry Tudor King Richard is killed on the field.		Tudor (Lancastrian)
16 June 1487		Stoke		Earl of Oxford & Henry VII vs. Earl of Lincoln & Francis Viscount Lovell		Tudor