Wars of the Roses: Chicago in 15th century
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.