The British nation a history / by George MWrong . own William wasat Hastings, and his army engaged insystematic pillage and destruction. OnOctober 12 Harold marched out of Lon-don to meet him, and on the 13th hetook up his position on rising ground,known later as the llill of Senlac,seven miles from Hastings, where nowstands the town of Battle. * The posi-tion was skilfully chosen. The Eng-lish army apparently intrenched itselfon high ground, and the attackingforce hiid to surmount both the hilland these intrenchmcnts. Harold sur-rounded himself in the centre withhis own trained House
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . own William wasat Hastings, and his army engaged insystematic pillage and destruction. OnOctober 12 Harold marched out of Lon-don to meet him, and on the 13th hetook up his position on rising ground,known later as the llill of Senlac,seven miles from Hastings, where nowstands the town of Battle. * The posi-tion was skilfully chosen. The Eng-lish army apparently intrenched itselfon high ground, and the attackingforce hiid to surmount both the hilland these intrenchmcnts. Harold sur-rounded himself in the centre withhis own trained House Carls, and the undisciplinedforce on his two wings had, like the centre, the advan-tage of cover, which they were ordered not to leave. The battle ofHastings, so mo-mentous in Eng-lish history, gavelittle occasion forthe complicatedtactics of laterwarfare. Haroldwas in a strongposition, and Will-iam attempted toseize it, mainlyby hand-to-hand fighting. Undoubtedly the Normans were the betterarmed and disciplined. The battle began at nine in the. Battle of Hastings. FROM THE ENGLISH TO THE NORMAN CONQUEST 59 morning, and the monkish chroniclers, to whom Haroldwas a perjured outcast and who regarded even his victoryat Stamford The battleof Hastings,or Seiilac,Oct. 14, 1066
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