The rebel army at Stoke Field was unusual in comprising German Landsknecht mercenaries under Martin Schwartz, Irish kerns under Thomas Fitzgerald, and English Yorkists. The Irish kern, fighting without armour, suffered catastrophic casualties from the Yorkist arrow storm. Martin Schwartz and Lincoln were both killed. It was the last pitched battle of the Wars of the Roses.
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