The Brave Stand of Lincoln's Yorkists: A Fatal Expedition Judged at Stoke Field

The Battle of Stoke Field in 1487 is known as the last battle of the Wars of the Roses, but it was no insignificant skirmish. John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln, led the Yorkist forces in an attempt to depose King Henry VII and reestablish the Yorkist dynasty. Lincoln was a declared descendant of the Yorkist line, who enlisted the assistance of the Irishman Thomas FitzGerald of Laccagh and the Lancashire gentry. amassed in the north. However, Lincoln's campaign was doomed to failure.

Lincoln was crowned 'King Edward VI' by Lambert Simnel's impostor in Dublin, but the Yorkists were no match for the veteran soldiers of Henry VII. Henry's forces were more skilled in combat and better armed, and he had double the numbers of Lincoln's troops led by Jasper Tudor and John de Vere, the 13th Earl of Oxford. Contrary to expectations, Lincoln outmaneuvered the northern Lancastrian army, but the Yorkist forces still lacked the strength to win the battle.

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