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Bosworth Field. – Ophir Bluff

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Bosworth Field.--Ophir Bluff. On Bosworth Field, in Leicestershire, was fought the last of the fierce battles of the Wars of the Roses. Here Richard of York, fighting like a lion at bay, fell on the field. Here the golden circlet, struck from the usurper's heimet, was picked up under a hawthorn bush and placed upon the head of Henry of Lancaster, who was hailed as Henry VII., King of England, and who, as the first of our Tudor Sovereigns, healed the breach between the friends of White and Red Roses by marrying Elizabeth of York. At Ophir Bluff, in New South Wales, gold was first found in Australia. The consequences of that discovery were enormous. Much evil, much good, followed the discovery of the precious metal. Happily, Australia has now a far surer basis of prosperity than even the gold, which, since its first discovery at Ophir Bluff, has been produced in such prodigious quantities from Australian soil. Photograph from The Queen's Empire (Cassell, 1899).
CaptionBosworth Field.--Ophir Bluff. On Bosworth Field, in Leicestershire, was fought the last of the fierce battles of the Wars of the Roses. Here Richard of York, fighting like a lion at bay, fell on the field. Here the golden circlet, struck from the usurper's heimet, was picked up under a hawthorn bush and placed upon the head of Henry of Lancaster, who was hailed as Henry VII., King of England, and who, as the first of our Tudor Sovereigns, healed the breach between the friends of White and Red Roses by marrying Elizabeth of York. At Ophir Bluff, in New South Wales, gold was first found in Australia. The consequences of that discovery were enormous. Much evil, much good, followed the discovery of the precious metal. Happily, Australia has now a far surer basis of prosperity than even the gold, which, since its first discovery at Ophir Bluff, has been produced in such prodigious quantities from Australian soil. Photograph from The Queen's Empire (Cassell, 1899).
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