King Harold takes an arrow to the eye, and the Norman soldiers and cavalry rout the Saxon army at the close of the Battle of Hastings. Chromolithograph by William Mossman after an illustration by Charles Stothard made for the Society of Antiquaries in Rev. John Collingwood Bruce’s The Bayeux Tapestry Elucidated, John Russell Smith, London, 1856.

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