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*******On 15 June, King Henry began moving northeast toward Newark after receiving news that Lincoln had crossed the River Trent. Around nine in the morning of 16 June, King Henry's forward troops, commanded by the Earl of Oxford, encountered the Yorkist army assembled in a single block, on a brow of Rampire Hill surrounded on three sides by the River Trent at the village of East Stoke. Henry's army was divided into three battles, of which Oxford led the vanguard, he may have had as many as 6,000 infantry under his command, flanked by two wings of mounted troops under Baron Scales and Sir John Savage (both veterans of Bosworth).

As at Bosworth, the King left the direction of the fighting itself to Oxford. Before the fight began some unusual lights in the sky were interpreted as ill-portents by Lancastrian soldiers, leading to some desertions, but Oxford and other nobles were able to restore morale, and soon the army was in "good array and in a fair battle".*******

****[ The field was silence, each side contemplating. ]****

[ Henry, VII ] - *He spoke up, his chest-armor covering his padded clothing.* "John De' Vere, opinions on a good way to strike - our hostile yorkist foes?" *He asked, his imperialist cloth hat, turning in the wind - with his feather shivering to the winds.*

[ John, Vere ] - *He thought, being the Principal-Commander of his army afterall...* "We could go head-first, we have them outnumbered, by 1.2x, our 12,000 versus their 8,000 should not lose, aswell as our morale and formation shall hold in combat." *He spoke.*

[ Lancastrian Longbows ] - *Wearing imperial-like clothing, armed with longbows from wales itself. Messed with their bows or stood at hand, speaking with one another.*

[ York Longbows ] - *The longbows apart of Tudor stood with the Lancastrians, with their yorkist bows.*

[ Lancastrian Retinue ] - **The back-bone of the armies were its infantry/Retinue, knights armed for combat...**