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Normans and the English. The army sizes were around 5000 to 7000 people on each side with each person armed with armour, swords, shields and many more weapons (figure 2). People know what happened at the battle of Hastings because it was recorded on the Bayeux Tapestry (figure 3) by his son William 2. The battle of Hastings was an important event because it was a battle on who would be king of England. William 1 and Harold 2 went to battle with each other because they both wanted to be king of England.

The focus on this assignment will be on William the Conqueror who was the king of England, and also the Battle of Hastings. William conquered many countries and won the Battle of Hastings, which then made him King of England. William the conqueror was born in 1028 in a country called Normandy. He became the Duke of Normandy at age 8 after his father (Robert 1, Duke of Normandy) died. Because he became Duke of Normandy at a very young age, many people tried to kill him, and the people who were looking

The Vikings are often represented in modern culture as burly, horn-helm wearing savages, who ruthlessly plunder and destroy towns and countrysides, and while this might be an exaggeration, it is not completely untrue. In the 9th century, the Vikings from Scandinavia exposed the weakness of Charlemagne’s self-confident regime, they sought to loot the now-wealthy Franks and replace them as the dominant warrior class of northern Europe. It was their turn to extract plunder and to sell off slaves across

William was born the city Falaise, France in the year 1028. Nobody knows the day William was born. He was conceived by an unmarried French woman to the duke of Normandy. William died in the year 1087. His father died when he was eight years old therefore making him the new duke of Normandy. William was a very powerful figure in the medieval world as he became the King of England. William had to first face Harold Godwinson to become king. There armies battled each other but it was William who came

attack. The Americans had the Utah and Omaha beaches in the west, the British at Gold and Sword, and the Canadians at Juno Beach. The objectives of every man that landed on Juno beach was to get off at Juno Beach Fast, push inland up to the Caen-Bayeux Highway and connect with the British forces on Gold and Sword beach. This is known as the greatest seaborne invasion in history. It was aimed at 80 kilometers along the Normandy coast. Canada's objective was to attack right in the middle of the Normandy

reasons. For example, even though Anne is in hiding, she still is able to talk about the war and what is happening outside of the annex. On Friday, 9 June, 1944, Anne talks about the war by saying, “Super News of the invasion. The Allies have taken Bayeux, a small village on the French coast, and are now fighting for Caen”. On Tuesday, 6 June, 1944, the only thing Anne is talking about in this entry is D-day, a very important event in WWII. In Anne’s Wednesday, 13 January, 1943, she says, “And every

The first major battle was Juno and it was landed on by Canadians. The objectives of the 3rd Division on D-Day were to cut the Caen-Bayeux road, seize the Car piquet airport west of Caen, and form a link between the two British beaches of Gold and Sword on either side of Juno Beach. The landings initially encountered heavy resistance from the German 716th Infantry Division; the preliminary

However, Edward did something very odd—he promised the crown to William, Duke of Normandy—a cousin through Edward’s mother, Emma. This perplexingly odd promise was made even stranger when, according to the Bayeux Tapestry, Harold was shipwrecked off the coast of Normandy and brought to stay at the court of William. There he supposedly swore an unbreakable oath, giving William his loyalty and support in his path to the crown. He returned to England. Yet when

The concept of ‘what if’ and speculations of alternate outcomes of events effectively sparked my interest in history. Pinpointing the pivotal factors of events throughout time made me appreciate how history sculpts the world. Growing up in Ireland, I questioned the rise of the Provisional IRA, discussing what might have happened had British Army action leading to 1972 been less brutal. This curiosity with alternative history led me to read Ferguson’s ‘Virtual History’ and assess the common reluctance

The humanities have played a vital role in my development in college, as they permeated my undergraduate studies. I am currently a senior at Boston University. I am majoring in the History of Art and Architecture, and I am double minoring in Medieval Studies and Classical Civilizations. These academic areas have shaped my outlook on the world, as I studied histories and cultures from different civilizations throughout the centuries. The humanities are the only field that allows this kind of introspection