He was made reckless, unscrupulous, and cruel by the influences which surrounded him, and the circumstances in which he lived.In 2012, an archaeological excavation was conducted on a city council car park on the site once occupied by Greyfriars, Leicester. The University of Leicester confirmed on 4 February 2013 that a skeleton found in the excavation was that of Richard III.Richard III (2 October 1452 - 22 August 1485) was King of England for two years, from 1483 until his death in 1485 in the Battle of Bosworth Field. He was the last king of the House of York and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty. His defeat at Bosworth Field, the decisive battle of the Wars of the Roses, is sometimes regarded as the end of the Middle Ages in England.Richard died during the Battle of Bosworth Field, the last English king to die in battle. Because of the circumstances of his accession and consequence of Henry VII's victory, Richard III's remains received only a peremptory battlefield burial and were lost for more than five centuries. Bridgeford Press presents "Kingdom for a Horse, The Story of Richard III" as told by Jacob Abbott. This narrative presents the manner in which the principles of pride, ambition, and desperate love of power, which were instilled into his mind in his earliest years, brought forth in the end their legitimate fruits.