Conquest帝国征程(3)

And in Britain, especially, we like to think there's something about our history

Like our climate, our landscape, that's naturally moderate

Not much given to earthquakes and revolutions.

But there are times and places when history, British history

Comes at you with a rush, violent, decisive, bloody

- a truckload of trouble knocking you down

Wiping out everything that gives you your bearings in the world:

law, custom, loyalty and language.

And this is one of those places.

I know it doesn't look like the site of a national trauma, does it?

Especially these days

When it looks more suitable for a county fair than a mass slaughter.

But this is the battlefield of Hastings

And here one kind of England was annihilated

And another kind of England was set up in its place.