ABSTRACT
King Richard iii was held responsible by his contemporaries not just for the deposition of a rightful child king but also for his and his brother's subsequent deaths. Richard and Buckingham were in absolute control; if the Protector's intentions were not public, rumours abounded. The rebellion was over and King Richard had surmounted the first serious threat to his authority. The presence of Henry Tudor on Breton soil was a distinct embarrassment, and doubly so after Richard and Duke Francis came to a amicable accord in the late spring of 1484, an agreement whereby the King of England offered the Duke a brigade of longbows should the duchy be threatened. The Battle of Bosworth is one of the most important encounters in British history. It opened with a conventional archery duel, appears to have been inconclusive as neither side was so stung as to force the advance to contact.
