285 LEWES AND EVESHAM 1264-65: Simon de Montfort and the Barons' War

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At the crescendo of the Second Barons' War were the battles of Lewes and Evesham. At Lewes, Simon de Montfort, the powerful renegade leader of the Baronial faction, won a vital victory, smashing the Royalist forces and capturing Henry III and Prince Edward. Edward escaped, however, to lead the Royalist armies to a crushing victory just a year later at Evesham.

Using full color illustrations, bird's-eye views, and detailed maps to generate an arresting visual perspective of the fighting, this book tells the full story of the battles of Lewes and Evesham, the only pitched battles to be fought by English armies in the mid-13th century.