 | Wace - 1837 - 368 pages
...with-out regarding it. But the English charged and drove the Normans before them, till they made them fall back upon this fosse, overthrowing into it horses...rolling one over the other, with their faces to the 6 Though the details vary much, all the historians attribute great loss to circumstances of this sort.... | |
 | Wace - 1837 - 368 pages
...without regarding it. But the English charged and drove the Normans before them, till they made them fall back upon this fosse, overthrowing into it horses...rolling one over the other, with their faces to the 6 Though the details vary much, all the historians attribute great loss to circumstances of this sort.... | |
 | Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1851 - 376 pages
...without regarding it. But the English charged and drove the Normans before them till they made them fall back upon this fosse, overthrowing into it horses...drew down along with them, died there. At no time during the day's battle did so many Normans die as perished in that fosse. So those said who saw the... | |
 | Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1851 - 400 pages
...without regarding it. But the English charged and drove the Normans before them till they made them fall back upon this fosse, overthrowing into it horses...their faces to the earth, and unable to rise. Many of tho English, also, whom the Normans drew down along with them, died there. At no time during the day's... | |
 | sir Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1851 - 348 pages
...Many of the English, also, whom the Normans drew down along with them, died there. At no time during the day's battle did so many Normans die as perished in that fosse. So those said who saw the dead. " The varlets who were set to guard the harness began to abandon it as they saw the loss of the... | |
 | Sussex Archaeological Society - 1853 - 334 pages
...not mentioned by other historians. Thierry. 32 Carmen, v. 415, 416. M Chron. of Battel Abbey, p. 6. At no time in the day's battle did so many Normans...perished in that fosse. So those said who saw the dead." 35 The account given in the ' Chronicon de Bello ' is similar. " There lay," says our monk,... | |
 | John Collingwood Bruce - 1856 - 224 pages
...regarding it. But the English charged, and drove the Normans before them, till they made them fall back upon this fosse, overthrowing into it horses...drew down along with them, died there. At no time during the day's battle did so many Normans die as perished in that fosse. So said they who saw the... | |
 | John Collingwood Bruce - 1856 - 214 pages
...regarding it. But the English charged, and drove the Normans before them, till they made them fall back upon this fosse, overthrowing into it horses...English also, whom the Normans drew down along with thorn, died there. At no time during the day's battle did so many Normans die as perished in that fosse.... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1863 - 382 pages
...without regarding it. But the English charged and drove the Normans before them till they made them fall back upon this fosse, overthrowing into it horses and men. Many were to be seen failing therein, rolling one over the other, with their faces to the earth, and unable to rise. Many... | |
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In the plain was a fosse, which the Normans had now behind them, having passed it in the fight without regarding it. But the English charged and drove the Normans before them till they made them fall back upon this fosse, overthrowing into it horses and... 
