Lancastrian rebels: 30,000 (contemporary claim); Yorkist: unknown
Battle of Empingham was a medieval pitched battle between opposing field armies, fought at Rutland, England in 1470. House of York (Edward IV) prevailed over House of Lancaster (Welles Uprising rebels under Sir Robert Welles). Decisive Yorkist victory; the Welles Uprising was crushed, though the battle led to the flight and defection of Warwick and Clarence to the Lancastrian cause.
The site of Battle of Empingham lies on Inferior Oolite Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is limestone, sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.
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