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The Battle of Hastings
On August 1066, William, Duke of Normandy assembled 4000 knights and 7000 foot soldiers at the mouth of the Dives River, on the coast of Normandy. However they were unable to embark because of the unfavourable winds.
Harold Godwinson who was the King of England feared an attack in the Hastings-Pevensey area, but by the 8th of September King Harold though the wind would ruin any attack by sea, so he sent away his English fleet and his army of men.
On the 27th of September the winds turned favourable, William sailed to the port of Pevensey. When he landed on the 29th of September he made a makeshift fort on top of the ruins of a Roman Stronghold. 2 days later William moved his entire army 16 kilometres to the east to a …show more content…

To get troops to fight the Normans, Harold called on his levies, which were free men who owed two months of service to the English Military each year. Harold and his army waited for the Normans in the south of England for two months, but the Normans didn’t come because the weather was too bad. The levies terms of duties were over so they left, and food reserves had become low so Harold was forced to stand down his Navy for the coming winter. Harold’s army was now very depleted. So when William and his army eventually came when the weather was better they were able to sail in without any trouble, if the weather was better two months earlier and Harold had his full force of men and the Navy then the Normans may have been confronted on the sea and not at Hastings.
My last cause of the Battle of Hastings was that after Harold had sent away the Navy and his army of men in the South an invasion of Northumbria was happening in the North of England. Harold had to march his already depleted army up to the north of England to fight up there. He defeated the invaders but his army was damaged even more, whilst he was away in the north William sailed in in the south without any

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