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
F. F. Bosworth around 1930 he began one of the early successful gospel radio ministries. Today he is best known for his book "Christ the Healer" which went through seven editions in his lifetime and now has over 500,000 copies in print. F. F. Bosworth was one of five children who grew up living on prairies in Nebraska in a devout Methodist home. His father was a Civil War veteran (part of an Illinois company), who moved to Utica, Nebraska after the Civil War was over, but before F. F. Bosworth was born. When F. F. Bosworth was about 8 or 9 years