Battle of Wakefield castle on 30 December. His reasons for doing so have been variously ascribed to deception by the Lancastrian armies, or treachery by some nobles and Lancastrian officers who York thought were his allies, or simple rashness or miscalculation by York. The Duke of York was killed and his army was destroyed, many of the prominent Yorkist leaders and their family members died in the battle or were captured and executed. King Henry VI ascended the throne in 1422, when he was only nine months old. He grew up to be an ineffective king, and prone to spells of mental illness.
In the Neolithic Age In the Neolithic Age "In the Neolithic Age" is a poem by the English writer Rudyard Kipling. It was published in the December 1892 issue of "The Idler" and in 1896 in his poetry collection "The Seven Seas". The poem is the source of the quotation: "There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, / And every single one of them is right." The poem was published in the December 1892 issue of the literary magazine "The Idler" as the introduction to Kipling's article "My First Book", with the title "Primum Tempus". Kipling experimented with a variety of