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Author: Jamie
393 – To Kill a Legend
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Here is how you probably heard the story of the Battle of Hastings. William the Conqueror boarded a ship, won a battle at Hastings, and was crowned King.
Kingdom. Conqueror. Conquered.
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392 – The Night is Dark and Full of Terrors
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Chaos.
The orderly rhythm of attacks… and the steady wall of the war hedge had dissolved, and it was replaced by a raging melee.
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Members Only 117 – Shop Talk: This Is How We Do It Edition
Chapter Nine – The Normans
391 – The Battle of Hastings
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Stamford Bridge had been a nightmare. Thousands of dead… untold numbers of wounded. And the fallout was just beginning. All over Britain, all over Europe, families would slowly be learning the fate of their loved ones. Word was spreading across England and up to Orkney. Out to Flanders, and Norway.
390 – Stamford Bridge
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King Harold, his Huscarls, and the fyrd of Wessex were driving north as fast as they could.
389 – The Tyrant and the Muddy Crossing
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The shores of Saint Valery must have been quite the sight. Looking at the records, which discuss the size of this fleet and other notes that let us estimate the size of the original fleet launched from the River Dives, and comparing those to the records of the fleet following it’s mooring at Saint Valery…historians estimate William lost somewhere in the region of 100 ships. Some were shipwrecked. But others would have just deserted.
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