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Chap. 3.
The Battle of Hastings.
WE meet to-day on the most interesting spot on English ground -- to call back the memories of 800 years, and in imagination to behold once more that bloody strife from morn to eve on which the destinies of England hung, and which shaped the course for good or ill of all our future story which has left its stamp for ever on England and her wide domains,and, " high mettling" our honest and sturdy Saxon nature with Norman chivalry and enterprise, has raised a race of islanders to be the lords of one sixth part of the lands trodden upon by man, whose flag is planted in every region of the world.
