Lancashire
Historians cannot refer to the Wars of the Roses as a ‘civil war’. They were a series of private battles fought between private armies financed by soldierly aristocrats, roughly divided into two factions – the houses of Lancaster and York. They were territorial in that the lords, having chosen which side to join, used the resultant conflicts as a Heaven-sent opportunity to increase their already considerable lands and the castles built on them.
It is often forgotten that these two vitally important countries, one massive in size, the other massive in resources and armed might, were in one way or the other involved in fighting wars with each other during a period of eighteen years at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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