The world: historical and actual . in. This time Warwick wasobliged to seek safety in flight to France. Therethe famous king-maker entered into negotiationswith Queen Margaret for the restoration of HenryVI., to the English throne, the marriage of PrinceEdward of Lancaster with his own daughter and therecognition of Clarence as the heir presumptive tothe prince. By that arrangement he would makeit reasonably certain that the crown would be in-herited by the Warwick blood. Louis XI. was thenupon the French throne. He favored Warwick, and her of the house of Neville for two generationsperished b
The world: historical and actual . in. This time Warwick wasobliged to seek safety in flight to France. Therethe famous king-maker entered into negotiationswith Queen Margaret for the restoration of HenryVI., to the English throne, the marriage of PrinceEdward of Lancaster with his own daughter and therecognition of Clarence as the heir presumptive tothe prince. By that arrangement he would makeit reasonably certain that the crown would be in-herited by the Warwick blood. Louis XI. was thenupon the French throne. He favored Warwick, and her of the house of Neville for two generationsperished by the sword, with the solitary exception ofGeorge, Archbishop of York. The daughter ofWarwick, who had married Prince Edward, waswedded in 1472 to Richard, Duke of Gloucester, af-terward Richard III., but even then none of theblood of the • king-maker ever flowed in the veiusof royalty. This last enterprise of the great Warwick pavedthe way for a renewal of hostilities between Franceand England. In 1475 the English again invaded. TOWER OF LONDON. the plan worked well. The seemingly invincible earlreturned to England, marched upon London, tookit and restored poor Henry the Sixth, Edward flee-ing to Holland. But Warwicks career was nearly at an end. Somesix months later Edward returned with a force ofHutch and Flemings, and the battle of Barnet wasfought, April 14, 1471, in which the great earl wasslain. A few weeks later Queen Margaret andPrince Edward were both taken prisoners, and thelatter slain. In the following June Henry himself,the last of the Lancasters, was put to death in theTower of London. That ended the War of theRoses. It is said that in that war every male mem- the French territory for the purpose of came of the expedition, however, exceptthat Louis agreed to pay a pension to the Englishcrown and betrothed his heir, the Dauphin Charles,to the eldest daughter of the king of England, aconclusion and result quite unsatisfactory to theEnglish peo
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