Hastings, Battle Of, fought on 14th October 1066, on Senlac Hill, 6 m. NW. of Hastings (where now stands the little town of Battle), between William, Duke of Normandy and Harold II., King of England; victory rested with the Normans, and Harold was slain on the field.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Hastings * Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquis of