The Battle Of Hastings was in the year 1066, in the medieval times.The battle took place at the south Coast of the United Kingdom

* William had assembled a great army of his and had very good weapons to kill Harold Godwinson's army. He also had very strong shields to protect his army.

* He had built and also bought lots of ships to carry forces across the sea to attack Harold Godwinson's army with. He had things like cannons etc. for long range distances, so that when they are sailing across to England where Harold Godwinson's army was, when they saw them from far away they would have attacked with there cannons without Harold Godwinson's army knowing -and would kill his army by surprise-

* William included in his army cavalry, which was his fierce knights on horses. This would have gave Williams army a lot more attacking power and gave them the upper hand.

* Also, to show that Williams's army were prepared, when they were just about to attack each other -when Harold Godwinson's army were on top of a hill and William's army at the bottom of the hill- William put his army in rows, and had archers and also had foot soldiers while the rest of his army were on horses (cavalry).

William's Skill & Courage As A Leader

* William was very brave at a difficult time in the battle because he led back up the hill to attack the English.

* To show that William was very skilful he told his men to use a trick of RETEATING to make the English come down from the hill so that he could easily kill the English army.

* Also, when William's army were in a losing position, William persevered (never gave up) his army was going to run away and admit defeat but William encouraged himself and he kept his head up high and not keep his head down in shame. He told his army that they are not going to back down and lose so then never mind Harold Godwinson killing them William himself would kill his own army if they ran away.

How lucky or Unlucky William Was

Good Luck:

* It was easier for William because some of Harold Godwinson's army died whilst there were battling against Harold Hadraada so it will be an advantage for William

* After Harold Godwinson fought with Harold Hadraada he was exhausted when he was going to battle with William so it will be easy for William to win to beat Harold because his army was tired.

* William had many different weapons to attack Harold Godwinson with and one of them was arches. At a key moment of the battle, Harold got hit in the eye by an arrow and had died.

Bad Luck

* When Harold Godwinson decided to go to the south coast and wait for William to attack him first he was waiting all summer because the bad luck happened for William when the wind changed and went against him. So if he still tried to attack Harold Godwinson he would have got shipwrecked on the way sailing across.

* Harold was not fully prepared because he was in a dilemma; he didn't know which coast to guard the north or the south. This shows that he was not very well prepared because he didn't know which person to attack first but he unfortunately he made the wrong decision for himself and his army.

* When Harold made the wrong decision and guarded the south coast, he was waiting the whole summer for William to attack he had to feed etc. his whole army but he didn't think that he will have to this so he could not handle taking care of his army for a long period of time so he just had enough and sent his army home.

Harold was a very skilful when it came to battle. And when it was the battle and Harold was at the top of the hill and William was at the bottom Harold had a very cunning idea that since he had a lot of shields for protection he made a defensive wall made out of all the metal plated shields so it was very hard for William's army to fight there way through it.

Also Harold was very encouraging because all the time he constantly encouraged his army to not give up and persevere. Not also was he encouraging, sometimes he forced his army to do things like William and his army. He was very encouraging when he marched his army all the way up to the north coast, defeat Harold Hadraada and then march them all the way back down to the south coast and battle with William and his army. But sometimes Harold Godwinson can be cantankerous.

Good Luck:

Luckily, Harold Godwinson went to battle with Harold Hadraada and defeated Harold Hadraada. So then it will be easier for Harold Godwinson because that is Harold Hadraada out of the way so he won't be under pressure as much as before.

For William the wind changed so it was bad luck when he had to feed his army, then send them home and then after that get the all together and march all the way to the North coast and defeat Harold Hadraada. But it was good luck when he had beat Harold Hadraada so he only had to beat William's army but were unsuccessful.

Bad Luck:

At a key moment, an arrow in the eye killed Harold Godwinson during the battle, which means they had lost and William became the next new king.

When Harold Godwinson fought with Harold Hadraada, Harold Godwinson won but then was informed that he to go to war with William so some of his army were lost during the other battle in the north coast.

Harold Godwinson's army were tired and exhausted when the came back from the north coast to the south coast and were not ready to go to battle with William.

The most important reason that I thought William won the battle of Hastings is the trick that he told his army to do. He told his army to pretend to run away so Harold Godwinson's army think that there winning and William's army admit defeat but Harold Godwinson made a big mistake, his army broke off from the defensive wall and the wall collapsed. But William's army retreated and turned back and slaughtered Harold Godwinson and his army.

By Ibrar Ahmed 7B1!!!

Williams Mistakes:

During the war and the battle of Hastings William didn't make any mistakes minor or major.

Harold Godwinson's Mistakes:

The mistake that he made was when he guarded the south coast because he waited all summer for William to attack so instead if he knew that the wind had changed he would have guarded the north coast.

The major mistake that he made was when William executed his trick (did his trick) he pretended to run away so Harold thought he was winning and some of the people broke of the defensive wall so it collapsed. Then whilst he was chasing them, William's army turned around and slaughtered Harold's army.

Harold's Tactics:

Harold used his entire army shield and made a defensive wall to protect them.

William's Tactics:

The retreating tactic is when William told his army to pretend to run away but when Harold's army think there winning they will break their defensive wall and then turn around and slaughter his army.

Harold's Positions:

I think that Harold didn't have any positions because he was continuously guarding the north and south coast so he did not have any.

William's Positions:

William positions were that he had arranged his army rows.