Describes the significant battle in 1066 that gave the French-speaking Normans control of England.

Hastings (Great Battle and Sieges)

Children's Books

Sauvain, Philip

Rothero, Christopher

History

Crestwood House

Traces the development of the uniforms, armor, and equipment of the knights and common soldiers during the Middle Ages

Medieval Military Dress, 1066-1500 (Blandford Colour Series)

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Sterling Pub. Co., Inc.

A combination of dynastic disputes, feudal quibbles, trade disagreements and historical antagonism resulted in the opening of the Hundred Years War in 1337. The first major English land victory in this conflict was the Battle of Crécy (1346). This pitted the French army, then considered the best in Europe, against the English under King Edward III. The battle established the longbow as one of the most feared weapons of the medieval period, a reputation reinforced at the bloody Battle of Poitiers (1356) where much of the French nobility was slaughtered and their king captured by the English host.

Armies of Crecy and Poitiers (Men-At-Arms Series, No 111)

Military

Osprey_Publishing

On 28 September 1066 William of Normandy landed near Hastings and prepared to meet the Anglo-Saxon army of King Harold Godwinson. On 10 October 1066 the two armies met; and after six hours of fighting what became known as the Battle of Hastings, the Anglo-Saxon army was crushed and their king slain. The Normans set up castles to control the native population, and four-fifths of all England's land changed ownership. However, despite initial Norman success, it was fully two centuries before the Anglo-Norman kings managed to penetrate the wild interiors of Wales and Scotland, and many more centuries before the countries of Scotland, Wales and England were united under one crown.

The Scottish and Welsh Wars 1250-1400 (Men at Arms Series, 151)

Europe

The Scottish and Welsh Wars 1250-1400: With visitor information (Trade Editions)

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