4 of January 1066: My name is Charlie of London. I am part of the housecarles, an elite English fighting force. Today our beloved King Edward died and I’ve heard that Harold earl of Wessex is going to inherit the throne, but across the sea there are rumours that a certain William duke of Normandy is also competing for the throne.
6 of January 1066: Harold earl of Wessex is crowned the new king of England. He was crowned earlier today in London. When this news will reach William duke of Normandy I bet he’ll be furious.
July 1066: According to our spies William has gathering up a fleet of ships and men. So now we’re waiting down south near the channel. We have already set up defences for the invasion fleet to come.
September: We’ve been waiting for a long time and now we have to head north because Harald king of Norway has landed in the north and has captured the city of Yorkshire, and now we’re heading there to defeat him, so we have to abandon our post in the south and go 185 miles up north to push back or defeat the invading Vikings back to Norway.
20 of September 1066: We’re now heading up north with a huge army and more to come because we are planning to pick up many other soldiers from other towns.
25 of September 1066: We have travelled one hundred and eighty two miles in five days and with an army of about seven thousand men. We approached the Vikings and we could see them without any armour and totally unprepared. We charged forwards and cut down the enemy on the west side of the bridge. They were either killed or they ran across the bridge to their main forces on the eats side of the bridge. We ran after them meeting up with their main forces then we had a big battle were king harald of Norway was killed
1 of October: we were celebrating when news reached us that William duke of Normandy had invaded and that he took the town called hastings south of London. This was very bad we already came all this way and now we have to go back down towards London.
14 of October 1066
(Louis De Clercq)
03/11/2009
Time travel with Sven
During the mission I will be a Norman horseman will take part in the battle of Hastings.
29/09/1066: The mission starts
We arrived at Hastings a day ago. We are currently occupying Hastings and preparing for the battle.
13/09/1066: The day before the battle
We had time to relax but we knew that Harold‘s army was going to arrive in a day or two. We are now north of Hastings. William had already stetted us the archers where in the fist line, the foot solders where behind them and the last line we were there. I was in the middle of the last lines where the Normans and Duke William were, at my left were all the Bretons our French allies and on the right all of our other French allies.
14/09/1066: The battle
In the middle of the night we where sure that the English where here, they probably just arrived. William told us to attack now because they weren’t ready and deployed yet. When we finally found the English, we realized that we would have a big disadvantage: they were on top of a hill. The English only had foot soldiers and some archers; we had an advantage because we had cavalry. Our foot soldiers launched the first attack but most got killed because the English were throwing javelins and firing arrow down the hill. The rest got pushed away by the English who formed a shield wall. Our archers weren’t very affective; they just weakened the English front row. William ordered to attack with cavalry it was more affective. William horse was killed but we were lucking he survived. The English attacked it killed many of us but our cavalry counter attacked the killed many of the English troops. We had to do something now or we would lose. William told us to retread the English flowed us down the hill. Suddenly we turned our horses around we were faster and quickly encircled them. This technique was very affective we used it twice and we were wining now. We still had to deal with Harold which was still on top of the hill. William told the archers to aim for the back of the English troops where Harold was. Now the English couldn’t protect themselves with their shield. All we had to do is defend ourselves and hope Harold would get killed. After a lot of firing arrows we got Harold. We just defeated the English, it was a relief.
15/09/1066: After the battle
During the battle we lost about 3000 of our 8400. The English suffered a lot more they lost about 5000 of their 7500 men. It is time to go for me now .William will be crowed king of England on Christmas day.
29/09/1066: The mission starts
We arrived at Hastings a day ago. We are currently occupying Hastings and preparing for the battle.
13/09/1066: The day before the battle
We had time to relax but we knew that Harold‘s army was going to arrive in a day or two. We are now north of Hastings. William had already stetted us the archers where in the fist line, the foot solders where behind them and the last line we were there. I was in the middle of the last lines where the Normans and Duke William were, at my left were all the Bretons our French allies and on the right all of our other French allies.
14/09/1066: The battle
In the middle of the night we where sure that the English where here, they probably just arrived. William told us to attack now because they weren’t ready and deployed yet. When we finally found the English, we realized that we would have a big disadvantage: they were on top of a hill. The English only had foot soldiers and some archers; we had an advantage because we had cavalry. Our foot soldiers launched the first attack but most got killed because the English were throwing javelins and firing arrow down the hill. The rest got pushed away by the English who formed a shield wall. Our archers weren’t very affective; they just weakened the English front row. William ordered to attack with cavalry it was more affective. William horse was killed but we were lucking he survived. The English attacked it killed many of us but our cavalry counter attacked the killed many of the English troops. We had to do something now or we would lose. William told us to retread the English flowed us down the hill. Suddenly we turned our horses around we were faster and quickly encircled them. This technique was very affective we used it twice and we were wining now. We still had to deal with Harold which was still on top of the hill. William told the archers to aim for the back of the English troops where Harold was. Now the English couldn’t protect themselves with their shield. All we had to do is defend ourselves and hope Harold would get killed. After a lot of firing arrows we got Harold. We just defeated the English, it was a relief.
15/09/1066: After the battle
During the battle we lost about 3000 of our 8400. The English suffered a lot more they lost about 5000 of their 7500 men. It is time to go for me now .William will be crowed king of England on Christmas day.
02/11/2009
Tessa tells of her father going to war!
Dear diary,
Father has gone off to get ready for war. I am helping out. They need to get all the weapons ready to fight Harold. Harold is a cruel and sneaky man. I mean it wasn’t fair of him to get himself secretly crowned. It should have been a fair battle between three us but then again Harold Godwineson is not fair. Father is proud to be in Harald’s army and I’m also proud he is. Getting weapons ready is hard work. I was exhausted afterwards. I am proud to be helping such a good man like harald. I am sure he’ll win this battle.
-Tessa
Dear Diary,
Father just left to go to war. It is cold and misty outside its horrible. I can’t believe they actually go outside in this weather. Harald is accompanied by Earl Tostig Harold’s brother. It’s quite funny that Harold’s brother is fighting against him. I am not aloud to be at the war so I am actally sitting on a grassy patch above the field. I don’t want to look though it so sad. I don’t know where father is anymore. I lost track of him an hour ago. We are losing. There are now more dead than alive. I just hope father isn’t one of those who are dead.
-Tessa
Dear Diary,
Father didn’t survive. After the battle I went to look for him and he wasn’t there. I looked everywhere and eventually found him dead in the grass by many others. I didn’t stay long though I ran home crying to Mother. That was a week ago. I was to sad to write it then. Father is gone, and we lost the battle things couldn’t get worse.
-Tessa
Father has gone off to get ready for war. I am helping out. They need to get all the weapons ready to fight Harold. Harold is a cruel and sneaky man. I mean it wasn’t fair of him to get himself secretly crowned. It should have been a fair battle between three us but then again Harold Godwineson is not fair. Father is proud to be in Harald’s army and I’m also proud he is. Getting weapons ready is hard work. I was exhausted afterwards. I am proud to be helping such a good man like harald. I am sure he’ll win this battle.
-Tessa
Dear Diary,
Father just left to go to war. It is cold and misty outside its horrible. I can’t believe they actually go outside in this weather. Harald is accompanied by Earl Tostig Harold’s brother. It’s quite funny that Harold’s brother is fighting against him. I am not aloud to be at the war so I am actally sitting on a grassy patch above the field. I don’t want to look though it so sad. I don’t know where father is anymore. I lost track of him an hour ago. We are losing. There are now more dead than alive. I just hope father isn’t one of those who are dead.
-Tessa
Dear Diary,
Father didn’t survive. After the battle I went to look for him and he wasn’t there. I looked everywhere and eventually found him dead in the grass by many others. I didn’t stay long though I ran home crying to Mother. That was a week ago. I was to sad to write it then. Father is gone, and we lost the battle things couldn’t get worse.
-Tessa
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