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Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum

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The Anglo Saxons Run Away in Disorder

When people start to move as individuals, it all falls apart. That's why the anglo saxons stayed on the hill and never bothered william down at the bottom of the hill. The only way they could bother him is to come down. If they came down, he'd kill them. Several times these saxons, thinking they were pursuing retreating horsemen, broke formation and ran down the hill. And when they were strung out all along the hill as individuals, the cavalry came back and killed em. that's an example of another tactic that probably would not have worked against caesar.

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