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**Featured Artifact:**
Battle of Hasting:

The battle of Hastings took place in 1066 when the king of England died. Harold the second took the place of king. William a Norman king save the king life a few years before, and the king said he could be king. William takes an army and cross the English Channel into England. The two met of the battlefield of Hastings. Harold had only foot soldiers with shields, sword or pikes. William had knights, foot soldiers and archers. Harold place his men on a top of a hill and told his men to form a shield wall. William started the battle by telling his archers to fire. The archers fired at a wrong angle and the arrows landed short of Harold's men. Then William ordered his knights to charge. The Calvary charged but the horses took and ran when the got close to the shield wall. Then William sent his foot soldiers up, they charge into the shield wall, and hand to hand fighting broke out. Then near the end of the day, William left flank broke and some of Harold men follow them, the knights saw this and charge over and killed them. William saw and ordered fake retreat. Many of Harold's men died chasing the retreating men. Then William ordered his archers to fire on a different angle and this time the arrows hit Harold's men and one of the arrow hit Harold. The battle was soon over. William had won and became king of England. The Battle of Hastings ended the Anglo-Saxon rule in England, and began the new era of Norman rules.