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History of the Anglo-Saxons - From the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest (Illustrated) Kindle Edition

by Thomas Miller (Author)

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Elated by the victory which a hasty march and a sudden surprise had enabled him to obtain more easily over the Norwegians, the brave Harold again, without a day's delay, proceeded to advance rapidly in the direction of the Norman encampment, wearied and thinned as his forces were by the late encounter; hoping by the same unexpected manœuvre and headlong attack, to overthrow at once this new enemy. So sanguine was the Saxon king of obtaining the victory, that he commanded a fleet of seven hundred vessels to hasten towards the English Channel, and intercept the enemy's ships if they should, on his approach, attempt to return to Normandy. The force thus despatched, to remain idle and useless upon the ocean, greatly diminished the strength of the army which Harold was about to lead into the field. Added to this, many had abandoned his standard in disgust, because he prohibited them from plundering the Northmen, whom they had so recently conquered—an act of forbearance which, when placed beside his generous dismissal of the vanquished, shows that Harold, like Alfred, blended mercy instead of revenge with conquest. Too confident in the justice of his cause—brave, eager, impetuous, and burning with the remembrance of the wrongs which he had endured, while he lay helpless at the foot of the Norman duke in his own country, the Saxon king hastened with forced marches to London; where he only waited a few days to collect such forces as were scattered about the neighbourhood, instead of gathering around him the whole strength of Mercia, and the thousands which he might have marshalled together from the northern and western provinces. Those who flocked to his standard came singly, or in small bands; they consisted of men who had armed hastily, of citizens who lived in the metropolis, of countrymen who were within a day or two's march of the capital, and even of monks who abandoned their monasteries to defend their country against the invaders...

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File Size: 3913 KB
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Publisher: Didactic Press (July 23, 2014)
Publication Date: July 23, 2014
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
Language: English
ASIN: B00M2EOQA2
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

Can get for free on Project Gutenberg. It is from the 1870's not 2014

By Clem on January 27, 2015

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Do not "buy". This can be downloaded on Project Gutenberg for free. And be aware that It is from the 1870's (which I don't believe is stated anywhere in the book as offered here) not 2014 as Amazon's description says (that is only when this publisher put out the reprint). I thought I was getting a book with the latest information on the subject. The book is fine for when it was originally written, but you can get it for free.

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Good reading.

By Gonzalo on April 10, 2015

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Acute revieuw of the Anglo-Saxon era in the UK, there predominance untill the apearance of the Dane & Swedish viking-settlers who where the paramount influence in the East-Noth East zone of the whole Isle, and the posterior invasion of the Norman Knights who molded the GB of today & the British Empire that existed till the Chuchill era. Good reading.

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