Who was in the Battle of Hastings?
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King Harold II of England is defeated by the Norman forces of William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings, fought on Sen-lac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, England. At the end of the devastating and blood shedding, all-day battle, Harold was killed–shot in the eye with an arrow, according to legend–and his forces were destroyed. He was the last Anglo-Saxon king of England.
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The Battle of Hastings[a] was fought on 14 October 1066 between the Norman-French army of William, the Duke of Normandy, and an English army under the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson, beginning the Norman conquest of England. It took place approximately 7 miles (11 kilometres) northwest of Hastings, close to the present-day town of Battle, East Sussex, and was a decisive Norman victory.