English scouts bring news to King Harold, and William, Duke of Normandy, holding a baton, addresses his troops before battle from the edge of a forest. 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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