...because it was the last time England was conquered, and effectively it was a war that was all over in one day. There was so much resting on it and yet at a couple of key moments it could easily have gone either way! So in the morning the King was drawn from the majority of the peoples' of the country that lived there at that time, and by the evening England was ruled from then and for centuries by a peoples' and ancestors of a peoples' that would only ever inhabit the country in very small numbers...only a few hundred norman families ever settled!
Read all about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_hastings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_hastings
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