battle of stanford bridge
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- Slide: 1
- Thats not good
- King Harold Godwinson finds out that William and Harald Hardrada want to invade england
- Slide: 2
- King Harold decided to travel south as he was expecting an attack from william, however a storm occured delaying his attack
- Slide: 3
- I'm coming for you brother
- At the Stanford bridge Tostig Godwin made an alliance with Harald Hardrada which meant he was betraying his brother, King Harold. When king Harold found out about this he rushed north to fight them which took him and his army 4 days to get there.
- Slide: 4
- AAAAAAGHHHHHHHH!
- As the norse were getting ready for battle they realised that they had forgotten their armour in their ships which were very far away. But the battle began and a Norwegian beserker slayed 40 englishmen by himself until one of the englishmen went under the bridge and stabbed him with a spear.
- Slide: 5
- AAAAGHHHH!
- AAAGHHHHH!
- Now that the beserker was dead the english were able to cross the bidge and attack the norse. The battle ended up getting pushed back very far from the bridge.
- Slide: 6
- The battle eventually ended when the english had more power over the Norwegians and when Harald Hardrada got killed by an arrow and Tostig Godwin getting slain and about 11,000 people died.
- Slide: 0
- William and Harald want to invade england!
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