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EP8 Caesar at Hastings

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum

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The Battle of Hastings

When william the conqueror shows up to fight the locals, he's fighting a bunch of people who represent the predominant troop type of thenw era. And they showed these protonites, some of them are using the spears in the fashion that they will later on,. They're throwing them in a big nine spears they're throwing them overhand. So it seems like, once again, we're not quite at this period. We're later on, you're going to have these mediaeval nights with the lance under the arm. In addition to that, let's not think about them riding these massive, scary war horses, which will, it mogd be something that does happen

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