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The Briefest Book Review (2)

Gaiman and Byatt on a roll…

June-July 1098 – Battle of Anglesey Sound. Magnus ‘Barefoot’ fights the Anglo-Saxon (Normans). Magnus wins.

2 July 866 – Battle of Brissarthe. The Franks fight a Breton-Viking army. The Breton-Viking army wins.

2 July 936 – Death of Henry ‘the Fowler’, King of East Francia.

2 July 936 – Coronation of Otto I as King of East Francia.

3 July 987 – Coronation of Hugh Capet as King of the Franks.

3 July 1035 – William the Conqueror succeeds his father as Duke of Normandy.

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