Harold II's army marched from London through the Midlands to Yorkshire to fight at Stamford Bridge — then back through the Midlands and south to Hastings in under three weeks. The physical exhaustion of this extraordinary double march through the Midlands directly contributed to his defeat and death at Hastings. The Midlands road network (largely Roman) was the logistical key to Harold's campaign.
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