Why is 1066 considered a pivotal year in English history?
And, you know, maybe this is the end of the road for him. Doesn't really seem a comeback, does there?
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He's also about the natural metier of a Frenchman. So even with all this, even with all his carts of dung and his hard-faced greedy Frenchmen and whatnot, It's still a big, it's still a challenge, isn't it? He's got to basically get them across the channel. He's got to land. He's got to win battles. He's got to get to London, all of that stuff.
That I think is the key thing. He, the only way he can hope to win is to force a battle, which means effectively to gamble everything, his life, everything on a single decisive encounter. And the truth is, is that he's only fought one battle really before. And that was back in 1047 when he was about eight. He'd fought that pitch battle against the rebels, against his rule.
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