Talk:Battle of Hastings

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1066, by David Howarth is an immensely readable account of the background

--Jiang

I corrected some of the stuff about the feigned flights, some sources say the inspiration for the feigned flights came from the original flight by the Bretons. Introduced fyrdmen (levies) and housekarlar (English men-at-arms) but the article still needs a lot of work to correct some of the archaic stuff from the 1911 Encyclopedia Brittanica.

-- kudz75

Each battle comprised infantry, cavalry and archers along with crossbowmen. is this meant to say each wing, or battalion, or is this some archaic or technical meaning of the word battle? Billlion 18:57, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

'Battle' in the archaic sense. Medieval armies were traditionally divided into three groups which (at the time) were called 'battles' (battalia in Latin). The word 'battalion' traces the same roots.--kudz75 00:18, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. Do you think that should be explained in the article? Or is there a wikipedia article explaining such things? Billlion 09:47, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Feel free to add in some info on 'battle' if you think it needs it, be bold in updating pages! There's also a medieval warfare page that could use the definition too if it doesn't have it already.--kudz75 03:28, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)

The "Battle" section on has been obviously altered to contain ficticious information. I'm not certain how to report this and am not comfortable reverting the changes myself so I thought I would mention this here in the hopes some kind soul would repair the writeup.

Vandalism reverted. Thanks for pointing it out.Billlion 19:57, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

See [1] for discussion about this attempt to 'punk' wikipedia. --Saforrest 15:02, May 6, 2005 (UTC)

- I would like to see more about the real significance of this battle. The aftermath section does not really tell you anything about that. Maybe this belongs to another article, but should also be quoted here? -Rich