38 Mutilated Skeletons: The Bloodiest Battle In Britain's History | The Battle Of Towton | Timeline 

the age of chivalry certainly did exist. it died on 10/25/1415. and the English killed it. by towton it was no more.

A symbolic war this with lots of sacrifice having tremendous affects on the people of England. Its still mentioned by Yorkshire Men today (but they are always out of step a bit. Do they still dye their hair blonde at the front?), whenever a group of Lancashire and Yorkshire men happen to share the same spaces. A bloody war that was very influentual in societies direction for years after the war allowed the creation of conditions permiting todays financial domination of all aspects of life. And where that makes its dramatical consequences felt for everyone around when it makes its final events manifest. Dan dan daarrnn!!

9 ads in this video. You have completely missed the point of youtub

@@konker420 ads? where do you see ads?

Thank you for this facinating video, TIMELINE! ⚘⚘⚘

Amen brother

My home town in southern California has an area that's now a dairy farm (a haunted one at that) where a massacre of Chumash Native Americans is supposed to have taken place at the hands of Spanish conquestadors. I get a horrible deep seated feeling of sorrow anytime I pass it as well. It's so strange how those slain in large scale violent altercations seem to almost call out to the living, and those of us that are for some reason sensitive to such things hear them. Now that we have the technology to see what parts of the brain have a spike in activity when humans perceive specific things, we ought to be able to figure this out. For example by doing brain activity scans on musicians while they play we have been able to identify the specific part of the brain responsible for sensing melody, or the part that senses rythymn when the same scan was done to a drummer. I wonder if they used this tech on those who can feel the pain and life or death struggle at the locations of mass graves due to human violence, if we could identify where in the brain this takes place . . .

Lol

@@GustavoCardoso95 ?

@@TheEx3rgj he's a young edgelord

He went out in the blizzard? How could he hear noise in the blizzard?

your ancestor is a bad ass

Mark Williams, he should have brought along his shotgun or some ciggies and coffee..

Sorry for your loss my dude

And the award for most English comment on this video goes to...

Well said

Better than dying in battle

Ancients proud

Right. Because a years-long war involving mass slaughter backing two opposing branches of a noble family is way more worthwhile.

Lol I wont argue with you But music is hurting my ears how bout you

No one fought 10 hours straight.

@@Mok5ha Agreed. 15 minutes into a pitched hand to hand battle, one must have taken a brief time out. How this could be possibe though is a drawn curtain.

In some battles yes they broke off but usually it could go on for hours until one of the enemy had exhausted his reserves or retreated.

Catering must have been a nightmare!

The way the combat was organized, men literally fought in shifts. As soon as they were exhausted they would retire to rest and recover (until able to return) and be replaced by (hopefully) fresh men. This would be a constant cycle, it’s insane to think a man wearing armor could fight continuously for TEN hours! Look at mma matches, two guys wearing NO armor and not having to swing heavy weapons at each other might fight at a max 5 * 5 min rounds. When that it the case, both parties are invariably exhausted so I doubt the participants of a medieval battle (even conditioned to fight in armor etc) could have realistically lasted any longer before retiring, getting a rest then waiting to be re-cycled back onto the battlefield...

Bosworths the same.It just doesnt feel right.

A good friend of mine who is a vet went to see to a cow in a place called Bloody Meadow. It was at night with a strong wind blowing and scudding clouds moving across the moon. Not a nervous type he nevertheless was badly spooked . He was from South Africa and had no idea what had happened there .

Did you find d anything

Nige 66 That’s interesting considering that the battle was actually fought on Ambion Hill.

was born in tadcaster and would agree with this - a very strange atmosphere

@wayne goff l can confirm the accuracy of that statement 😡

Europistan

That is what the mexicans have done here in the US. It is awful

@builderjen both of you Stand Back Stand By

Bradford.

There is atleast one blunt object I don t want to die by

At least it sounds like a fair fight. We fight wars from a distance now, and dont take too many risks.

@@normgraham8630 Except for death by long-range weapons. War is lethal, even when it looks like a video game, wake up.

yeah what is she on about? lol

morradi10000 Love his books!

WHAT about Alison Weir's books?

Dandelion Dementors? Tulip Terminator? Yeah, it seems they hated Flowers.

FICTION based in real events? NO. I'll try Alison Wier.

Who is that Alison Weir

afraid that's the price of free youtubes, but i too cringe at the seeming audacity of the shoit, corporate takeover of the world

@Steven Hickman there are no rules in reality like u think there are. I will take whatever i can get for free. And so will you.

Skip to the end and replay. Works a charm

I always watch these on Adblock. Even better.

Wow...people still getting ads on RU-vid, how retro.

The same still goes on today. We haven't changed much in that aspect.

Winter sure did come.

Also the Noth remembers, think of the fate of poor Sarah Jessica Parker.

Pepperidge farm remembers

@@vengefullizard96 28000 people did how is that cringe thats sad

"Save your Confederate money, boys. The South will rise again!"

it was mainly about sparing people and not putting them through unnecessary pain/humiliation. for example mutilating bodies and taking heads as trophies was not chivalrous. killing fleeing enemies was also not chivalrous.basically no war crimes were allowed…

Pequenaud, il y a un biscuit pour toi. Au revoir, a rien.

More British in reality than just English as The Welsh and Scots played a huge role.

@@taffyducks544 the Tudors where Welch hence the red dragon on their coat of arms

@@elwolf8536 Where are you getting the Tudors from? Towton involved the last of the Plantagenet (House of York) and the Lancastrians (House of Beaufort and others) Henry Tudor was just 4 years old and didn't become King and the first Tudor monarch until 1485 (26 years after the battle of Towton) Also his Welsh connection was very tenuous only an eighth Welsh at most through his paternal grandfather and the fact he was born in Pembroke castle.

@@taffyducks544 Huge is exaggerating a bit. Two English royal dynasties York and Lancaster with English generals fighting over the English crown on English soil with armies made up of over 80% English soldiers. Britain as a nation didn't even exist at this time, so I think my original post about English history stands up.

@Steven Hickman in case your not being sarcastic I'd imagine the ranks on both sides included foreign mercenaries.

I can only imagine medieval soldiers shouting that’s not fair while arrows rain down like Germans with American shotguns

That is a fascinating concept. Since it appears the greater number of these soldiers WERE archers, it could be they were an actual division of archers, cut off from the main body of their army by mounted knights, abandoned to their fates by their fellows, and quite literally butchered to death. Because archers indeed were long-range fighters, murderously effective; if they were ever separated from the other fighters, it was open season on them. They were possibly viewed by contemporaries in much the same light as Modern-Day soldiers view Snipers: while they absolutely feared them and respected how lethal they were, they were also despised for those very qualities...and for their ability to lurk, unseen, awaiting the most opportune moment to strike.The snipers of their day, they would have been hacked to death with particular venom. Also..archers were drawn from the Peasant class, which, if we're honest, put them in a position of utter disdain from their Social Superiors, hence the apparent mutilations. And, of course, I COULD be entirely wrong. There's a First Time for everything. Lol

@@katharper655 it also had to do with the fact that those peasants could take down a knight who had trained their whole life. It was seen as distasteful by the upper classes who loathed the idea they could be felled from a distance by a peasant with essentially a stick and a string Kinda like how the brits reacted in the american revolution to sharpshooters targeting officers

You're not English so why would you have heard of it ? Don't beat yourself up over it ; I would suspect few English people haven't either.

If you like these you should watch Britain's Bloodiest Dynasty. I think there's 4 episodes, not sure. It's VERY good

I kind of put myself in lockdowns so I can continue the binges

You are disrespecting them by calling them victims. They were brave mens fighting for a cause, they are at pace now. You on the other hand are going to die from old age in Londonistan, indeed you are the victim at least they fought.

@@omegared7653 lol you're bored aren't you

if would have been captured, upper folks would have ended up the same way...

The players change, the game stays the same.

Overly simplistic remark.

@Robert H No, it's unhistorical and ignorant

@@cogitoergospud1 wasn't it just....

Ahhh the dead just complain.. He's got more worms than me! Why does he get a bigger head stone? The ground is cold, ect...

Unfortunately they put you in a mass grave wherever you died around your enemies - so you are possibly not with your pals at all.

ryan c How about dying peacefully at an old age and being buried in a family plot with your loved ones?

You'd been flogged and made a bad jester you mumbling idiot.

when your dead, you don't care

also found it confusing!

@@ThrashLawPatentsAndTMs I think you'll find that the graphic view is from the lancastrian side, though they are poorly done.

@@rtk3543 Nope - the red forces are shown pushing the right flank backwards - so the White Rose has been corrupted

I thought exactly the same. It was confusing and uneccessary.

and around the bitemarks, remnants of daddies tomato ketchup, further proof that it is superior in every way to heinz ketchup, which is bland in comparison. this however has met with much consternation, as some culinary historians insist that it is in fact an early attempt at a Balti style sauce proving that indian people had settled in the Birmingham area much earlier than had previously been believed.

William Ferguson 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂so true, me bets the BBC would of also added that the yorkist reinforcements were Africans who were invited to England to fight on the yorkist side and were the true victors of the battle.

That sounds interesting. Can we get Peter Weller to narrate it?

The first part of the comment sounds like Christianity to me.

Occupational Hazard in our old land!

@@peterleadley7103 In every land where the people put their feet on, actually.

Plenty of history, but made by foreigners. Such as the Normans, Danes, Welsh and Scots.

Better education might have kept you away from drugs, crime and subsequent imprisonment. Do you have a parole date yet?

@@carolinethompson7173 How did your local soccer team go? Stab anyone in the street when your team lost?

Whilst in the west midlands they rely on fists, here in Greece the directors tend to take to the pitch with a side arm.

Stephen Tebbutt When I was little I, too, wanted to be an archaeologist. I was about 7 years old. Then I thought about how hot & dirty digging in the dirt would be, what back breaking work was involved, the many hazards involved, (snakes, insects, & other nasty things) i just don’t understand how pragmatic a 7 year old could be, but thank the Lord I came to my senses!!!

Yes but that was their military genius at play. Dont think these two forces were nearly as efficient as roman soldiers.

Those were roman tactics though. I can just as well imagine that there was no such system at Towton and that the guys in the front row just got slaughtered first.

You've said the key words here. Personal combat is a brief event that requires a recovery(if you live). No one is chopping away for hours. You can't do that with a piece of timber, let alone with a man(or men) trying to do the same to you.

Ty i didnt know that Wondered how it was accomplished .

Roger H. Werner: did you work in Great Britain or on the continent? I am fascinated with archeology and history especially medieval times. Why where the graces dug up in the first place? Perhaps when excavation for new buildings or housing developments? I’m alway curious as to why we need to dig up graves.

@BLUE DOG Ah, jeez. Another "All wars are caused by rich business people for money" troll. Please read a history book sometime. Boudica raised her army because they confiscated her lands, flogged her, and raped her two daughters. She was attempting to drive the Romans out of Britain and also wanted revenge. She wasn't very good at it but she tried.

@evolved monkey Well, I can't imagine why they would restrict it to a time frame, evolved. Britain has been around well over 2000 years and it just doesn't make sense to limit it to half that, 500 BC to 1500 BC. To me, "Ever" means "Ever". Ah, who can know what someone else is thinking, though.

@BLUE DOG I learned not to try to explain things to trolls. You brush logic aside because all you really want is to argue. That is why you are called trolls. Welcome to mute.

@BLUE DOG With England? Not at all. They knew NOTHING of England when they first landed, and was sent back. Second time, the seas put a stop to the invasion. Third time they landed we faught them, but they still knew nothing of this land or if there were any riches. Especially since they were getting rich from Spain and Africa

There were only about 100,000 people in the whole island at the time ,fake news.

Ophelia S I know that I'd personally find it very difficult not to feel some emotion for these men. After all, they were humans like us and felt the exact same emotions that we did; they felt fear, happiness, sadness, love. They had loved ones whom they would never see again. I don't think that I could work with the skeletons without feeling some level of kinship with them.

I think if you work in that field it is important to remember that the remains you're working with are people too. You want to know all about them, what they ate, where they might be from. I suppose you would have to keep a professional distance but it would still be fascinating work.

Alrightyroo Arthur it is!

emmie90 Nope. His name was Pantybooger

Calling him Bob just don't seem right.

And his fighting partner red thee bok

@@Justin.Martyr You don't get the joke. That's ok, go on and play with your friends. Edit: I saw a couple of your videos and realize you must not have any friends. You say everyone in your town is stupid on the rare occasion you actually form a semi-coherent sentence.

He looks kind of like The Hound. PS everyone in my town is stupid too, me most of all.

Sandor Clegane

Goodness

exactly what *I was thinking

Except most if not all people involved were either nobility or professional soldiers .

Yep! Ransom your prisoners and f#ck the poor!!

@@pp-wo1sd perhaps you should watch this again and then delete your comment

@@JohnSmith-zv8km exactly. Haven't they carbon dated these bones and pretty much found differences between them, i.e the well-lived elite and the poor working class folk ?

If all the new ones are made over the Discovery/History Channel template then count me out...

That is a dam good point!

Well not all of them would have really mastered it; it was very difficult to master. That's why the French did not use them, it required too much training. Many boys would not develop the strength to be effective. Why gunpowder changed war so much; a barely trained and talented common person could do a lot more damage with a gun than an archer who had practiced his whole life.

Coupled with their culture and dashes of faith. They WERE definitely empire builders. Now that blood is being purposefully diluted. Certain powerful people do not want competition.

If you are interested, I don't want to bore anyone. You would think so but that isn't the case. English DNA is a mixture of that of the Britons (the pre-Roman inhabitants) and the Anglo Saxons, what's more we still live largely in our tribal groups dating back 1400 years. This explains. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2015-03-19-who-do-you-think-you-really-are-genetic-map-british-isles www.peopleofthebritishisles.org/ I personal anecdote. I was born and brought up in Tamworth, within a 1/4 of a mile of Watling Street (Roman road) in Staffordshire which was the boundary for the Danelaw. My older relatives told me that in their youth, around WWII, the people who lived on either side of the road still used different words for the same thing, one having derived from Saxon the other from Norse. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watling_Street en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watling_Street Even though we weren't in the Black Country, as a child I can remember hearing using some of the words listed here and it would appear they stem from early English. www.sedgleymanor.com/dictionaries/dialect.html#s

@@susiewood5329 I've always found it amazing that a country as old and global as Great Britain would still have so many dialects and idiosyncrasies. Why? With Television, mass media and social media one would think all that would disappear. Especially in a colonial country that is now being colonized. There is something to being a "Primary stock" country. You people are the originators of many successful colonies. You have the original imprint still inside you. Not for much longer bit still.....its impressive

@@olliefoxx7165 Not just TV and migration but the movement of indigenous people within the UK. Tamworth is now full of Brummies (people from Birmingham a city 15 miles away) and they have brought their accent with them. Previously outsiders were assimilated into the town quite quickly but when they come in such large numbers they just swamp the towns people. I moved to rural Shropshire 2 years ago. There are still enclaves of real English, my mum came from rural Berkshire and her mother was born within 10 miles of where all of her ancestors lived in the 1700s and some within 3 miles going back to the 1500s. One family farmed the land adjacent to the Seymours at Wolfehall. Some of us have a very strong attachment to this land and will fight to keep it. Over the years many family members left to go to the colonies. Some years ago I rather recklessly gave my DNA to Ancestry and as well as the Canadian, NZ and Aussie matches which I expected as people left here in the 1800s, I have lots of DNA matches in the US who I have no idea how we are connected. I think it must be pre-revolutionary migration on my dad's side which is a bit of a mystery prior to the late 1700s.

@Bear hn I don't think we suffered any more invasions than any other European country, probably less as we are an island. Much of our time was spent fighting each other in between the invasions, so "survival of the fittest" was constantly in play. There was never an opportunity for a generation to become soft, until the last 75 years.

Seamus Mounchere We haven't come far, have we...

Of course we have. Modern life is very different to life back then!!!

DOSENT TIME FLY, WHEN YOU'RE HAVING FUN.

@@ewanmee9877 nope we haven't; damn shame isn't it?

@tututuims ieijebdo and yet the wheels on the military industrial complex keep turning.

Wondering that myself !

Follow The Sun you're on mate

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DL Southwell, I would have to agree if for nothing else, to cover that horrible scar along the jaw.

You know, when you cover the disfigured half of his face, the good-half makes him look like he walked out of a Hollywood film, I think.

Philip Salama oo

War of the Roses seems to be an exception, all this suggests hate was involved and it's not likely you would have that abroad. Also it depends by nation. The most chivalrous were known to be the french and Italians. I'm not sure but I think the English were known to be one of the least chivalrous...but again it depends on who reigns. In the War of the Roses it was more of a civil war.

Nope

No, you would be stupid to think it was completely civilized. Just watch the rise and fall of the pantagenats dynasty and it will show you how savage the medieval times really were. Game of Thrones was an inspiration from europes brutal history. Nothing Romantic about killing your own family members because they conspire to kill you for your throne. Tell me where being civilized falls in place?

The rules of chivalry were largely there to protect rich people from being killed in battle by other rich people. The rank and file archers and infantry were fair game - they didn't own lands or titles. That way the upper class would be free to wage war against one another with little personal cost.

The problem with this documentary is that it isn't entirely accurate. It glosses over Henry's probable mental illness and imbecility.

Hello lucky you have a country, I live in a federation. no complaining. Saludos

leighmossien2009 I'm proudly American and I admire you for adoring your heritage

@@ronfroehlich4697 You can do that too, Ron. Your name is German and you must have a long history of your family and tribes. (Froehlich= happy)

I love English history more then my own country 😁

York is a wonderful visit.

He didn't make it to the harvesting season. He was told that they're gunna break 'is face(legs) noice and slow. But at least he's skull wasn't being drank from by some axe wielding, seaborne pillagers. And finally he did have a nice head on his shoulders.

or Dr. Gero was at work

The ancient Egyptians performed cataract surgery

ROTFLMAO!