Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... continued . By dusk Hardrada had fallen , and King Harold – ' a little man sitting proudly in his stir- rups ' - had made good his boast that his foe should win nothing in England but a grave . - Two days later , William , who had been ...
... continued . By dusk Hardrada had fallen , and King Harold – ' a little man sitting proudly in his stir- rups ' - had made good his boast that his foe should win nothing in England but a grave . - Two days later , William , who had been ...
Page 249
... continued shooting down each new batch of attackers as they struggled up the hill through the fading light . The fight had now become general , with the second French wave assailing the Constable's division . But everywhere the result ...
... continued shooting down each new batch of attackers as they struggled up the hill through the fading light . The fight had now become general , with the second French wave assailing the Constable's division . But everywhere the result ...
Page 319
... continued towards Westminster where they destroyed the house of the under - sheriff of Middlesex and let the prisoners out of the gaol . Others , on their way back to the city , broke into the laywers ' home in the Temple , tore the ...
... continued towards Westminster where they destroyed the house of the under - sheriff of Middlesex and let the prisoners out of the gaol . Others , on their way back to the city , broke into the laywers ' home in the Temple , tore the ...
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Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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