William the Conqueror’s invasion plans
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The Confidence of William the Conqueror
William the Conqueror was utterly convinced that God was on his side in all this. He genuinely believed that he had been promised this and that God was behind him. If you're doubling your number of ships, if you say I've got 60 but I'll provide you 120, you must be pretty confident that you can do that to make those promises to William when he's saying I want this done by the end of the year.
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