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14th October 1066: Battle of Hastings fought on Senlac Hill
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:02:53
Publish Date: 2017-10-13 21:05:32
Description: On the 14th October 1066, the Battle of Hastings was fought between Duke William II of Normandy and the Anglo-Saxon king Harold Godwinson. Harold’s defeat triggered the Norman conquest of England and the beginning of a new age in England’s rich monarchical history. To call the battle the Battle of Hastings is actually misleading, since it was actually fought seven miles away from Hastings, near the modern town of Battle, although the 1087 Domesday Book ordered by William the Conqueror did describe it as the Battle of Hastings. Less than four weeks before the battle, the northern English army had been ...
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