However, Trollope had lied, and the Lancastrians won the battle handily.
To add insult to injury, the Lancastrians put a paper crown on Richard of York's head.
The Lancastrians, meanwhile, didn't adopt the red rose until the 1480s,
when the conflict was finally dying down.
However, despite the Yorkists' confidence, the Lancastrians had been looting the countryside
and were still very much a serious threat.
In 1459, Richard of York, Warwick, and their allies were summoned to court by Queen Margaret and her Lancastrians.
Henry and his family went on the run, and the Lancastrians wouldn't seriously threaten Edward IV again until 1470,
nine years later.
She gathered loyalists to her cause, raised an army, and in 1460, the Lancastrians met the Yorkists at the Battle of Wakefield.
They were mostly Lancastrians, though we can only imagine how suspicious
their allies were when a Yorkshireman had to admit what county he came from.