Added: Nov 18, 2008
From: DrBogdanovic
Duration: 9:51
who got lucky at hastings?
Channel: News
Tags: battle documentary hastings invasion normans
Rating: 4.79 (38 ratings) Views: 12461' favoriteCount='81 Comments: 25
7111nailuj Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - Very boring, poorly written, uninformative "documentary."
UserNameForYeeTube Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - Umm, no, rulers of Wessex had united England and they became 'Kings of England' (though Alfred the Great was the first one to use 'King of the English' as his official style), with Harold Godwinson being the last Anglo-Saxon King of England.
RussiansRule08 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - I was in Hasting castle which has few ruins left but its awsome experience
hindigwapo Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - anglo-saxion was a real shit! normans rule, or should i say French Rule!
hindigwapo Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - there is no excuse in war. whether Harold and his troops passed by a cabaret or what, they were still 'loosers'--- and that's applicable to English people or anglo-saxon or whatchamacalit!.......Normans (French) RULE!!!
Britanglish13 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - no such thig as an ANGLO- SAXON- before this the area was raided several times- never was there a tribe called ANGLO-SAXON
219970 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - What do you mean? By this point, the Kingdoms of Wessex, Mercia, East Anglia and Northumberland had been united under one throne. Anglo-Saxon is a generic term which applies to the culture and language of those who inhabited England at that time. I am not entirely sure what you mean.
219970 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - This was the last time the French ever beat the English in a major battle, which is why they always talk about it. Ever heard of Agincourt, Crecy? Waterloo? Trafalgar? Where were the French in 1940? I think you'll find the British Empire was the greatest ever seen and the British beat the French on many occasions.
219970 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - Normans = Norsemen = not FrenchAnglo-Saxons = Germans
TemplarX2 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - What? you are a completely ignorant toon. France kicked English ass at Formingy (destroyed an army for the lost of 4 man), Bouvine, Tourcoing, Castillon, Cheaspeake, beachyhead, and so on. We won more battle than you did. Check your shit.
TemplarX2 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - Normans = French and have almost nothing to do with the Norsemen except that two years before than a norsemen were made duke of Normandy and overwhemingly gallic duchy! Norsemen = pagan, Scandinavian language, Norse stock, pagan culture.Norman = catholic, speak French, Gallo-Frankish with viking blood, french Culture. So what the fuck you're talking about?
matt2house Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - that's load of bollocks the normans were hardly french at all. plus it always english beating u frogs in every battle.
matt2house Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - indeed we did. Although I dont know why the frogs still claim that they beaten us in more battles than we did over them. Maybe they dont wanna look humiliatingly stupid infront of people.
matt2house Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - lol but ur seperating the norseman from the normans. which in this case the normans are direct descendants from the norseman. And they weren't even proper french at all, plus the french language is mixture of everything just like the english language.
TemplarX2 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - It's not claim you stupid cockhole, it's fact. check it out.
matt2house Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - that's not a fact that's a inference perceived by u frogs.
tortue2008 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - who won the 100 years war ? Waterloo ? the English did not dare 2 face the French 10 years earlier. If the order of Napoleon had been respected, if the french had had their best soldiers, if the prussians had arrived later, Waterloo would have been an english defeat.
tortue2008 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - There were many French in Williams army.
tortue2008 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - And what about the battles of Fontenoy, Yorktown? What about Bir Hakeim after which Hitler himself said the French were the best soldiers in the world.... after the germans. Thanks to the French sacrifice of Bir Hakeim, u, English, could win the battle of Tobrouk.... Remember also that the fact of living on an island saved you every time. In 1800.Even in 1940....
StandTogetherForever Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - If, If, IF, shut the fuck up
tortue2008 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - The soldiers who missed on the French side went to Moscow, won Austerlitz, Friedland, Wagram, Borodino etc....etc....They also won Castlebar. Do you remember the "courses of Castlebar" in 1798 where your famous redcoats (6000/8000), were just ridiculous against the french grenadiers (approximately 1100) (the generation missing in Waterloo). The English run many kilometres before Cornwallis could stop them. Waterloo in 1798 : it would have been funny.
redcoatsrule Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - Peace was declared in 1360. The English won a massive victory at Poitiers (1356), capturing the French King Jean le Bon. He was released for a ransom paid in gold coins called "franc-or" - "free gold".* He agreed to end the fighting, and to leave the English in control of large areas in western France - as well as Calais.
Talbot6832 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - I love it how the French, so frustrated by their horrific defeats by the English/British try and scrape one back on us by trying to make out that the Normans were French. First things first, the Normans were not in any shape or form - French. They were directly descended from the Norse, the same people that had migrated to England anyway!!!!!
Talbot6832 Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - I shouldn't bother.... this Frog prick is so jealous of the English he makes up lies to justify his very presence.
AngloSaxonBastart Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - saxon beliefs and identitys still very much alive today in present day life, and BOLLOX!! to all the Euro liars and political cully's out there that dont agree.I'm taking it see. See!Shit! Hastings, fuckin loss of discipline, but it was still touch and go.God bless England.