Comments on: Where FDR Meets CTU http://www.extrememortman.com/terrorism/where-fdr-meets-ctu/ Just When You Thought it was Safe to Take Politics Seriously Again Thu, 4 Dec 2008 02:25:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: Tim http://www.extrememortman.com/terrorism/where-fdr-meets-ctu/#comment-75960 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:14:53 +0000 http://www.extrememortman.com/terrorism/where-fdr-meets-ctu/#comment-75960 Not so much a weak defence as basically just a worn-out army. I think anyone would have been after marching 200 miles north, defeating the entire Viking army once and for all and thereby removing the Viking scourge from Europe (which nobody else had been able to do), and then turning around and marching back down south to face a well-rested and equipped army which was composed largely of experienced mercenaries. The fact that despite this the English army, (largely infantry) managed to hold off the Normans (infantry, heavy cavalry, and primitive artillery) for most of the day was quite an accomplishment and is known as one of the longest battles to have taken place in the mediaeval period. The Normans themselves admitted that they came within a hairsbreadth of defeat. Despite the Vikings fierce reputation many of them said that one English soldier was worth two Viking soldiers. As regards William...his favoured method of disposing of his enemies was by poison. He had claimed that he would defeat Harold in single-combat but when it came to it he baulked and instead sent several men on horseback to dispatch Harold, who was on foot, and in the twenty years following the invasion William was responsible for the deaths of approximately 300,000 (yes, three hundred thousand) English men, women, and children. Even his own followers, including Bishop Odo, were appalled. After the invasion France offered sanctuary to any Englishman that wanted it, the Danes twice tried to help put the Anglo-Saxons back on the throne, the Scots under King Malcolm twice tried to put the Anglo-Saxons back on the throne and offered sanctuary to any Englishman that wanted it...William a great man? Today he would have been prosecuted as a war criminal Not so much a weak defence as basically just a worn-out army. I think anyone would have been after marching 200 miles north, defeating the entire Viking army once and for all and thereby removing the Viking scourge from Europe (which nobody else had been able to do), and then turning around and marching back down south to face a well-rested and equipped army which was composed largely of experienced mercenaries. The fact that despite this the English army, (largely infantry) managed to hold off the Normans (infantry, heavy cavalry, and primitive artillery) for most of the day was quite an accomplishment and is known as one of the longest battles to have taken place in the mediaeval period. The Normans themselves admitted that they came within a hairsbreadth of defeat.

Despite the Vikings fierce reputation many of them said that one English soldier was worth two Viking soldiers.

As regards William…his favoured method of disposing of his enemies was by poison. He had claimed that he would defeat Harold in single-combat but when it came to it he baulked and instead sent several men on horseback to dispatch Harold, who was on foot, and in the twenty years following the invasion William was responsible for the deaths of approximately 300,000 (yes, three hundred thousand) English men, women, and children. Even his own followers, including Bishop Odo, were appalled. After the invasion France offered sanctuary to any Englishman that wanted it, the Danes twice tried to help put the Anglo-Saxons back on the throne, the Scots under King Malcolm twice tried to put the Anglo-Saxons back on the throne and offered sanctuary to any Englishman that wanted it…William a great man? Today he would have been prosecuted as a war criminal

]]> by: Quin http://www.extrememortman.com/terrorism/where-fdr-meets-ctu/#comment-15660 Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:50:45 +0000 http://www.extrememortman.com/terrorism/where-fdr-meets-ctu/#comment-15660 I vote for William as a great man and a doer of good. And besides that, I am told I am descended from his first cousin. All hail the St. Clair (Sinclair) family!!! I vote for William as a great man and a doer of good. And besides that, I am told I am descended from his first cousin. All hail the St. Clair (Sinclair) family!!!

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