THE RED BULL
My last Borders post for a while, on a suitably dramatic note...
THE RED BULL
The Dacre family were famous on the Border. Thomas Dacre, Leonard’s grandfather, had served as Warden of the West March and commanded the English Borderers at Flodden, where his charge saved the life of Edmund Howard, the Earl of Surrey’s son and commander of the English right w…
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