How did King Harold loose the Battle of Hastings?

Answer 1

Harold lost The Battle of Hastings for many reasons some say it's because of his men as William had hundreds of TRAINED men with armor and swords and with all the front line of the soldiers being on horse back while Harold had farmers with pitch forks and anything they could get there hands on (and all were on foot so this gave William an advantage of being able to swoop down and kill those below them).

Another known reason is that Harold's army had just won the battle with Harald up North and where recovering/resting when the news came that William was down in the South with his army so Harold and his men then had the long march (55 miles roughly) down to William and because of the lack of transport and food etc Harold lost a large number of men on the march and those who survived were utterly exhausted and needed to rest but they went straight into the Battle of Hastings. Moreover William was very prepared when he arrived in the South with his army. He built himself a fort out of wood and the reason for this is that William knew that Harold would be marching down to fight him off and a wood fort would take less time to build than if he were to build it out of stone.

The final reason i know of is that Harold lost control of his army during the battle as William played the retreat and attack defence where William pretended to retreat and as the English chased then off (braking the wall that they made so the Normans couldn't get through) suddenly the Normans would turn round and surround them this of coarse meant that everyone of the English would die if they fell for this evil trick (which they did 3 times.) So when William tried this Harold ordered his men to stay of course though some men refused and chased after them sure of victory no sooner had they done this the Normans then surrounded them. When Harold was once killed (by an arrow in his eye which was unlucky seeing as that was the only non covered part) all of his men realised now that Harold was dead there was nothing to fight for anymore so now thy needed to save there own necks, they'd lost. So there are some of the reasons why Harold lost the Battle of Hastings.

Answer 2

There were several factors. One was luck (On William the Bastard's part), another was poor discipline amongst Harold's men (who aside from his housecarls were mostly farmers) and importantly, Harold's men were fatigued from a long march from the recently fought Battle of Stamford Bridge.

Answer 3

Harold lost the battle of Hastings for many reasons. Some say it's because of his men as William had hundreds of trained men with armour and swords and with all the front line of the soldiers being on horse back while Harold had farmers with pitch forks and anything they could get there hands on.

Answer 4

William had pretended to retreat so when Harold thought he had won William and his army attacked again and shot Harold in the eye with an arrow. after Harold died most his army died too.yes, that's true, although the journey down from york made Harold and his army tired - they didnt stand a chance. Plus most of his decent soldiers refused to come after just fighting the battle of stamford bridge, so most of his soldiers were novices he had rounded up on the way down to hastings

Answer 5

he died so that

Answer 6

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