The Battle of Barnet on Easter Day 1471 ended the career of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick — the most powerful magnate in England and architect of the Wars of the Roses' most dramatic reversals. Fought in dense fog, Warwick's right wing overlapped the Yorkist left and drove it from the field, but mistook the Lancastrian badge of the star for Edward's sun and attacked their own men. Warwick was killed fleeing the field. His death and the subsequent Yorkist victory at Tewkesbury ended the Readeption of Henry VI.
c.1,000-4,000 killed including Warwick and his brother Montagu
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