broken by Oxford's superior numbers, and driven out of the field.
The mist prevented the rest of the armies from knowing what had
happened on the king's left. Edward himself led the charge on
Warwick's centre, and having his best troops under his command,
pressed forward with such force and vehemence that he pierced
Somerset's lines and threw them into confusion.

Just as Warwick's right had outflanked the king's left, so his own
left was outflanked by Gloucester. Warwick's troops fought with
great bravery, and, in spite of the disaster to his centre, were
holding their ground until Oxford, returning from his pursuit of
the king's left, came back through the mist. The king's emblem
was a sun, that of Oxford a star with streaming rays. In the dim
light this was mistaken by Warwick's men for the king's device,
and believing that Oxford was far away on the right, they received
him with a discharge of arrows. This was at once returned, and a
conflict took place. At last the mistake was discovered, but the
confusion caused was irreparable. Warwick and Oxford each suspected
the other of treachery, and the king's right still pressing on,
the confusion increased, and the battle, which had been so nearly
won by the Earl, soon became a complete defeat, and by ten in the
morning Warwick's army was in full flight.

Accounts differ as to the strength of the forces engaged, but it is
probable that there was no great inequality, and that each party
brought some fifteen thousand men into the field. The number of
slain is also very uncertain, some historians placing the total at
ten thousand, others as low as one thousand; but from the number
of nobles who fell, the former computation is probably nearest to
the truth. Warwick, his brother Montague, and many other nobles