Succession to the British throne branch of the royal house of Lancaster, the House of Beaufort, assumed the English crown as Henry VII, after defeating Richard III, who was killed at the battle of Bosworth when leading a charge against Henry's standard. Richard was the last king of the House of York, and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty. Henry declared himself king retroactively from 21 August 1485, the day before his victory over Richard at Bosworth Field, and caused Richard's "Titulus Regius" to be repealed and expunged from the Rolls of Parliament. After Henry's coronation in London in October that year, his first parliament,
Ordered to Die and resilience". Erik-Jan Zürcher argues that "Ordered to die" is nicely presented, with useful tables and a number of photographs, but he concludes that "Ordered to die" is a book with a clear but limited purpose. He states that the book presents a purely military history of the Ottoman war effort in the English language, where histories of this type have so far only been available in French or Turkish. — Ordered to Die Ordered to die: a history of the Ottoman army in the First World War is an account of the Ottoman Empire's military engagements in World War