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1066: Sailing Into the Storm
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
The Battle of Hastings
The battle happened on a sloping hill that this road from hastings to rochester crossed. Harold reportedly seized the high ground along the top of this slope, and his warriors formed a shield wall. Norman infantry then charge up the hill and repeatedly attack this anglo saxon shield wall. After probably hours of fighting, when casualties and fatigue are starting to set in,. William then sends in the cavalry, which is a special tool that he has that the english do not. But after repeated waves of attack, the shield wall is still holding. And the normans, by afternoon, are starting to get tired, and they are desperate to somehow break through this shield wall and end the stale mat
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