How was England conquered? ⚔️ Battles of William the Conqueror (ALL PARTS) 

As most succesful conquers through history, life is usually 99% effort and 1% luck, and to get a large place on history that 1% is quite important

In my experience there is no such thing as luck.

@@daguroswaldson257 nonsense percentages are a fact of life

@@daguroswaldson257 Then you dont have enough experience

it takes skill to capitalize on luck

It was probably a mix of that and William's patience. Looking through the details of the battle it's almost hard to believe that William took the engagement, but he bided his time and allowed the English to grow frustrated and impatient with constant charges and withdrawals. It was a gamble, the English lines easily could have held their discipline and probably won by standing still, but it paid off in the end.

If the fyrd had not broken their own formation and shield wall at Hastings, Harold would certainly have prevailed.

😛 Coming from Normandy, England is mine now ahahah

@@93200Jonas and luckily for you, had it not been for the English, we Germans would have conquered you 1914 ;)

@@Falkenhayn.Hamburg20 you mean canada

That's how history is supposed to be presented.

Dont forget there's two sides to a story

They do put biases in their videos, in their video on the Battle of Bosworth Field they literally portray Richard III as a demon. But then there's nothing wrong with bias to tell a story if it is done intelligently.

I like Kings & Generals more as they even question the ancient sources biases more indepth whilst also having better graphics and in general more content.

rectangles and squares have never been so exciting

There was a Disney in the battle.

and mickey mouse was their banner

@@HikerBikerMoter Yeah the Death Star with Mickey's ears ^^

Thought Disney was an Irish surname 💬

Sir Disney a knight in shining armor charges the enemy in battle M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E

🔥 FPH

@FlashPointHx your content is amazing

love your stuff bro, got me into being more interested in history a couple years ago

@@JuTakii that is awesome to hear!

@@FlashPointHx Does this mean you will be starting on a project about the history of Normans? Tosney, Byzantine Empire, Tacred's sons, grandsons, great grandsons... Awesome.

The problem Is that Harold technically usurped the Throne ,so he could had some enemy that see William as a lessen danger,as. well the fighting against Harald didn't did well for the strenght of Harold army..but he could had won this Battle if he was able to control his troops.. However,in a flat terrain his army was no Match for the heavy cavalry of William

@@alessandrogini5283 there are several ways to beat Calvary charges. The most simple was dig pits as the horses charge their legs with step into the pit and snap the horses leg, causing the horse to fall to the ground the rider to fly off and the Thrashing horse was an obstacle to the cavalry charge. Then there’s those spikes I forget what they’re called. There are two pieces of metal welded together with sharpened ends that are bent out so that when you drop them three of the points will be on the ground as a base and the fourth prong will be sticking straight up, so if the horse steps on it, it will cripple the horse. Thirdly, there’s the most famous probably of all the defenses, The pike. The big long pointy stick, and whether it’s driven into the ground is a more permanent, defensive line or just a long sharp pole held by soldiers. It is very effective, because no horse will run onto a wall of sharp pointy sticks. So if Harold find some more defensible area to stop that will not be so advantageous to Williams Calvary, and waits for his reinforcements, while letting his own men recover from the battle and forced march. It puts William in the position of either attacking Harold before all his reinforcements get to him, which means William hast to March thus sapping his troops of some of their strength, when they arrive to do battle, putting both sides on a more even keel in regards to exhaustion. Williams, fine Calvary is no longer a major player, so William is in trouble. William will have to attack Harold’s much more defendable location or sit and wait until Herald out numbers his men to where he can no longer have a chance at winning possibly meaning that William would have to leave England and be harassed all the way out. Let us not forget William was not exactly loved in Normandy. There have been people trying to usurp his power since he was just a child, and his father died, because he was technically an illegitimate child, which means he should not have been able to inherit Control of Normandy let alone England.

Too bad much like Qin Shi Huang's successors in the Qin Dynasty of China, William's own successors didnt amount to much and the Dynasty died out after a few short successors or within a hundred years or so. Why is it always like that that great leaders are almost never succeeded by good rulers? Most are piss poor rulers. History....tends to repeat itself regardless where you go in the world.

Yes the Hannibal series has been my favourite, i may rewatch it from the start

yea i've been waiting for them to finish that one for a while

I second that

it’s a looong story but yes we want it

37:39 - incweasing :)

He was King. And they were in the heartland of his supporters so he had to do something. But the Queen Mother (his mom) was trying very much to get her sons to stay and wait for more troops. Harald even asked his own younger brothers to stay in case he died but they told him no, we fight too.

His mother urged him to take immediate action. He followed her advice or admonition.

Hadrada was in the north, let him raid England freely and he would lose the support of many nobles, hence why his forces were exhausted or fresh recruits.

Wasn't his style. His idea of campaigns were speedy marches, as evidenced by his earlier actions versus the Welsh.

He wanted to take William by surprise, like he did the Vikings at Stamford Bridge. Good scouting by the Norman's foiled that plan tho.

Most likely be a good tv series much like how Vikings was done up or HBO's Rome.

A trilogy wouldn't be enough IMHO, a serie would be better. William the Conqueror completely changed the destiny of what will be France and England.

They'd make him black with braids. "William the Conqueror was black!!!"

The main issue is that you need time to tell the story of a man of this calibre's life. Second biggest issue is directors and funding not swaying the story to make it "for modern audiences" so william would end up a gay black trans man

Hardly a son of France. He had twice defeated the French in battle at Mortemer (1054) and Varaville (1057) which would embolden him to move on securing what he saw as his rightful place at the head of the Kingdom of England.

@@doug6500 yes so I think we should consider him as a norman and a Englishman.

Victory for Norman France!

My last name is a testament of Norman English supremacy

The Duchy of Normandy was part of France. He should paid tribute to the French King every year. He was French, French dad is language.

He could get with Kings and Generals narrator for a video or two. Both make similar styling videos.

Maybe they weren't present?

hadrada his army was a better version of the Anglo Saxon army at Hastings and the Anglo Saxons almost won

@@Inkognito-ts4to Hadrada was also a renowned commander. Godwinson managing to win at stamford bridge should be considered a marvellous victory in it’s own right.

@@ecaeas4439 not really, most of Haralds men were unarmored but they still went into battle. Godwinson literally caught them with their pants down.

@@ecaeas4439 harald lost only because he couldn't gather all his forces quick enough since he was disembarking still

@@jamesson1154 Ah yeah. Maybe Instead of “Marvellous”, i should’ve said it was simply a significant victory and a shock since many would expect Hadrada to win over Godwinsson who was comparatively inexperienced as a commander. I think had Harald’s forces been prepared and in their positions, it could’ve ended the other way.

Harold could won if he control more the troops,but in a flat terrain and not Mountains,his army was Simply too light to defeat the heavy cavalry of William..instead,he should' had ally with harald against William

he must have give nurthumbria to his brother and made peace with hadrada he lost his fouces from william and we must agree godwin wa not goood commonder @@alessandrogini5283

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Thank you for your support! Very kind of you.

No she died at the age of 68. Guess it was a typo by them.

Thank you so much for the support. Very kind of you!

Maybe it was a lone archer who seized an opportunity to kill the leader of an opposing army. How Harold died is a legend after all so the details will always be unclear.

Its like you think it is. It is the same with cities allowed to having walls and such, that practice is as old as time itself and was granted by rulers especially if they had a foreign ruler. Its inverse is also time tested: city walls were often broken down or gaps were created when you were conquered to prevent the region from becoming too strong of an opposing force. While effective in subdueing, it leaves a region unprotected so it was often accompanied with granting rights to other (often minorities/counter balancing) powers in the region. However the best strategy is to have a stable political alliance, because then you could have both, and that is exactly what people found in William and thus flocked to his will.

King of England by force 🤔

More like Aegon in regards to English history leading up towards the War of the Roses. Daenerys was supposed to be like Henry VII, who successfully reconquer his rightful throne after the Civil War