New England, Crimea

How Anglo-Saxon migration transformed Byzantium & created the first English colony

956 years ago, William of Normandy defeated Harold Godwinson’s army at Hastings and became the King of England. William’s regime was slow to eliminate Anglo-Saxon influence in England, but Anglo-Saxon uprisings in the north of the country drew his wrath. Over the winter of 1069-1070, William prosecuted the “Harrying of the North,” killing his way throug…