However, despite the Yorkists' confidence,
the Lancastrians had been looting the countryside and were still very much a serious threat.
She gathered loyalists to her cause, raised an army, and in 1460,
the Lancastrians met the Yorkists at the Battle of Wakefield.
According to legend,
he lamented that he could only kill 15 Yorkists that day, because he had to rely on them coming to him for battle.
By 1461, Edward of York and his brothers had rallied the Yorkists and taken them to London,
where Warwick crowned Edward of York as King Edward IV.