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385 – The Audacity of Boats

The British History Podcast

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Tostig's Invasion Wasn't Persuasive

The godwinson family seems to have possessed a degree of confidence that i can't even imagine. But confidence isn't the same thing as persuasion, and tostig's incredibly brave statement wasn't exactly persuasive. Ad why on earth would william want to invade england to restore tostig to his earldom? I mean, maybe he'd want to invade to become king, sure, but that wasn't going to be something he'd do on to stig's time table. And certainly not after tostick basically called him a woos in open court. So what he really needed to do was invade england, show harold what's what and, you know, restore

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