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May
15 MAY 1464
Battle of Hexham, Northumberland, the end of Lancastrian resistance (under Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset) to Edward IV in the north of England. The Yorkists were led by John Neville (later 1st Marquess of Montagu) and Somerset was wounded and then executed. Henry VI fled and was later found wandering helplessly around Lancashire.
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