La nazione britannica una storia / da George MWrong . ilda e il suo signore. miglia da York. Egli ha ordinato la shire prelievi a seguire, andvolunteers uniti a lui come egli è andato. Xo più brilliantexploit è registrata rispetto a marzo di questo molestato re.Harold Hardrada era a Stamford Bridge in attesa di thesurrender del promesso Fostages inglese e di Yorkitself, quando il lunedì, 25 settembre, il re ofEngland, il cui approccio è stato inosservata, attackedhim. Una lotta disperata seguita. Harold Hardrada,Tostig, e il fiore della forza Xorwegian cadde, eil inglese ha vinto a Stamford Bridge l'ultimo del lon

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The British nation a history / by George MWrong . ilda and her ladies. miles to York. He ordered the shire levies to follow, andvolunteers joined him as he went. Xo more brilliantexploit is recorded than the march of this harassed king.Harold Hardrada was at Stamford Bridge waiting for thesurrender of promised English Fostages and of Yorkitself, when on Monday, September 25, the King ofEngland, whose approach had been unobserved, attackedhim. A desperate fight followed. Harold Hardrada, Tostig, and the flower of the Xorwegian force fell, andthe English won at Stamford Bridge the last of the longseries of battles with the invaders from the noith. But disaster brooded over England. The favourablewind, watched and prayed for by the Normans duringThe landing more than a month, at last came, and Williamwith a great force landed at Pevensey, on thesouth coast, three days after the battle ofStamford Bridge. Harold, hurrying to the south, pausedat London to gather additional forces and to plan a new of William inEngland, 58 THE BRITISH NATION. campaign. Some advised him to shut himself up in Lon-don and to starve out the ]^orman by ravaging the Avholesouth country, but he refused thus toharass his own people. William wasat Hastings, and his army engaged insystematic pillage and destruction. OnOctober 13 Harold marched out of Lon-don to meet him, and on the 13th hetook up his position on rising ground, known later as the Hill of Senlac, seven miles from Hastings, where nowstands the town of Battle. The posi-tion was skilfully chosen. The Eng-NoKMAN Arciiei!, lOfiG. Hsh army apparently intrenched itselfThis short-bow was on high ground, and the attackingmuch less formidable f^^.^^ ^^^^ ^^ surmount both the hill than the long-bow of i i • tt i i aiatera-e. and thcse Hitrenchnients. Harold sur- rounded himself in the centre withhis own trained House Carls, and the undisciplinedforce on his two wings had, like the centre, the advan-tage of cover, which they Avere ordered not to l

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