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William the Conqueror’s invasion plans

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William of Marmsbury's Naval Forces

Most modern historians think that there's probably 7 to 8,000 menotans and perhaps 1,000 ships involved in the Norman conquest. To transport that number of people, supplies, horses across the channel was obviously a huge feat. So we're going to explore how he managed to do that.

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