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"Battlefield Britain"


This Friday evening this series arrives at the Battle of Hastings.It's a uk programme and if it's anything like the hatchet job last weeks' serving did on Boudicca then expect the worst for it's "analysis" of the Conqueror.One thing I predict:Varaville will not get a mention.

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Saw it and historic-wise it was farcical.Example:There was reference to the retreat of the Breton cavalry which tried to explain it in terms of them being pushed back by the Anglo-Saxon-Dane frontline.The reality was that the retreat was feigned being the central principle of Carolingian Cavalry Warfare as practised by the Franks and which the Normans learned from them.It was a superbly executed tactic by the Conqueror and was repeated regularly to devastating effect.Missing was any analysis of the political superiority of the Conqueror and his leadership team.In other words:divorced from the historical reality of the times.The Breton reference evidenced this.There was no mention of the supreme irony of the cavalry being Bretons.After the Anglo-Saxon Revolution of around 450 which ousted the Celtic hegemony,the Celts suffered horrendous genocide and ethnic cleansing driving many into the western areas of Britain,modern-day Wales and Cornwall.Even these areas became unsafe and many in Cornwall sailed to Brittany to escape certain death.There can be no doubt that their descendants were in the Conqueror's revolutionary army.It was payback time.Did the programme mention this even indirectly? Naturally not,since the whole thrust of it was to conjure up a laughable,unhistorical "England v France" scenario with generous lashings of CGI to give it a veneer of "authenticity" along with hilarious reconstructions involving cops and I kid you not polo-players! and if you please some "Cockney Rebel" sounding actors representing defeated "Saxons".All that was missing in these sad accounts to camera was the plaintive "we wuz robbed guv".It was that bad.No mention of the overwhelmingly larger tribe the Angles or that Godwineson was a Saxon-Dane linked to the Danish Court of Swein Esrithsen.Diabolical.

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Steve
I watched a portion of it and rather liked the cgi.Shame about the history.

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