Battle of Bosworth Field lead character, has been built up in the battles of Shakespeare's earlier play, "Henry VI, Part 3", as a "formidable swordsman and a courageous military leader"—in contrast to the dastardly means by which he becomes king in "Richard III". Although the Battle of Bosworth has only five sentences to direct it, three scenes and more than four hundred lines precede the action, developing the background and motivations for the characters in anticipation of the battle. Shakespeare's account of the battle was mostly based on chroniclers Edward Hall's and Raphael Holinshed's dramatic versions of history, which were sourced from Vergil's chronicle.
III Corps (United Kingdom) the Western Front throughout the Great War. The composition of army corps changed frequently. Some representative orders of battle for III Corps are given here. As initially constituted: General Officer Commanding: Major-General William Pulteney Order of Battle at start of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916: General Officer Commanding: Lieutenant-General Sir William Pulteney Order of Battle during the final advance in Artois, 8 October 1918: General Officer Commanding: Lieutenant-General Richard Butler During the Second World War, III Corps was formed in France under the command of Lieutenant-General Sir Ronald Forbes Adam to control forces of the British Expeditionary