A Historical Romance Recalls A Bloody Palm Sunday Battle

Yorkists and Lancastrians drowned in their chain mail at England’s Antietam in the Wars of the Roses

A 19th-century engraving of the Battle of Towton / Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Here’s a fact that may cheer you up if you’ve been plowing stony ground on Tinder or OKCupid: At least your brother the king can’t marry you off to a thuggish Duke of Burgundy as part of a package deal…