Battle of Bosworth Field to establish his reign, underscoring his point by noting that the young king had to spend ten more years pacifying factions and rebellions to secure his throne. Mackie asserts that, in hindsight, Bosworth Field is notable as the decisive battle that established a dynasty which would rule unchallenged over England for more than a hundred years. Mackie notes that contemporary historians of that time, wary of the three royal successions during the long Wars of the Roses, considered Bosworth Field just another in a lengthy series of such battles. It was through the works and efforts of Francis Bacon and
J. Allan Bosworth J. Allan Bosworth Allan Bernard Bosworth (1925), using the pen-name J. Allan Bosworth, is an American author of children's adventure books. His father, Allan Rucker Bosworth, is also a writer. Bosworth began writing while still a radioman aboard USS "Missouri". World War II had just ended, and the ship was on her long voyage home. A native Californian, he returned to San Francisco and took a job at the "Chronicle". Ten years later, having published two novels and a few dozen short stories, he left the newspaper to begin writing on a full time basis. He lived in Salem, Virginia,