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Bosworth Field

[boz-werth]
–noun
a battlefield in central England, near Leicester, where Richard III was defeated and slain by the future Henry VII in 1485.
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Bos·worth Field   (bŏz'wərth)   
A locality in central England near Leicester. It was the site of the final battle (August 22, 1485) of the Wars of the Roses, in which Henry Tudor (afterward Henry VII) defeated Richard III, the last king of the Plantagenet line. Richard was killed in the battle.
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