OT: Battle of Hastings

[Wilson Gray]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Nowadays it's the battle of "Poitiers."

WTF?!!!

Youneverknow,

Well, in any case, _Carles_ [karles] was an _oc_-speaker and the
battle took place in a town that still retains vestiges of its
original _oc_ speech.

And that "10,000" is a problem for me, too. That's a *lot* of men to
waste on a single battle on a single day in 1066. That approximates
the size of a modern U.S. Army division minus its support troops. How
could they have come up with such a huge number of fighters? Ca. 1050,
the entire population of London was only about 12,000 men, women, and
children.

Maybe you had to be there.


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-Wilson
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