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Plus Shakespeare's audience would have known the War of the Roses continued into Richard's reign (which is in the play).
There's a good chance that Shakespeare is painting Richard as the epitome of the "war mongering", general bad guys House of York - bear in mind Elizabeth I (on the throne when he wrote it) was the grand daughter of Henry Tudor who beat Richard at Bosworth Field.