BrianW
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A pedant writes - The Wars of the Roses were not between Lancashire and Yorkshire but between the royal houses of Lancaster and York.Roses, War of the Roses, Lancashire vs Yorkshire. A battle across the Pennines.
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Most of Yorkshire was Lancastrian, at least up to the Battle of Towton (1461), when many of them were wiped out.