Dan Snow
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first heard Dec 2024
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And King Harold had responded by calling up vast numbers of troops and waiting near the expected invasion zone.
But the masts they never appeared on the horizon.
August turned to September.
The weather was surely about to break.
I mean September in the channel can be rough, as I've said many times before on this podcast.
The invasion window was closed, surely.
His men also needed to go home for the harvest.
Supplies were eaten up.
He was forced to disband his army.
A day or two later.
He gets back to London.
And there's a thunderbolt.
England has been invaded, but not in the south.
Not by William of Normandy.
But in the north.
And what does Harold do?
Well, I think he conducts one of the most impressive and bold marches in British military history.
He gathers his professional troops around him, the full timers, the house carls, the pros, and they gallop up the great north road, the road built by the Romans, now the A one.
He sends messengers ahead, and
To tell any troops who avoided the slaughter at Fulford to meet him just south of York.
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