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Today Richard III is commonly remembered for gallant knight and acted with distinction as his FindingVinland
two things: his part in the disappearance of the own champion until his last breath”. 56 DiscoverhowViking
explorerswerethefirst
Princes in the Tower, and for being the ‘car park In this month’s issue, we explore how conflict – Europeanstoreach
king’ whose remains were uncovered in Leicester and the 30-year power struggle we call the Wars of Americaandwhytheir
coloniesdidn’tlast
in 2012. Less well known, however, is that he was the Roses, in particular – shaped Richard III’s entire
the last English king to die in battle. life. From witnessing the siege of his home by
Richard was a seasoned warrior whose death Lancastrian forces aged seven, to learning the art 64 TheDarkKnight
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at Bosworth in 1485, at the hands of Henry Tudor, of war in the Scottish borderlands Raisrevealed,theFrench
was his only known defeat. While the way in as a teen, to fighting side by side aristocratwhosemurderous
rampagemayhaveinspired
which Richard usurped the throne led his enemies with his brother at Tewkesbury, the legend of Bluebeard
to depict him as a monstrous villain, they couldn’t and finally defending his own
deny he was a formidable soldier. For instance, the crown. Turn to page 32 to read 70 Wehaveliftoff!
contemporary historian John Rous, who went as all about it! FromfightinginKoreato
workingasatestpilot,
far to compare Richard to the Antichrist, admitted discoverthepersonal
“if I may say the truth to his credit, though small Jack Parsons journeythatledNeil
Armstrong to the Moon
in body and feeble of limb, he bore himself like a Editor

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