Tag: Mortimers Cross

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On This Day In History: The Battle of Mortimer’s Cross – On Feb 2, 1461

MessageToEagle.com | February 2, 2017

MessageToEagle.com – On the 2nd February 1461, the battle was fought somewhere in the vicinity of Mortimer’s Cross in Herefordshire, at a site not far from the border with Wales.