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The fifteen “Proven Companions” of this battle’s victor are the only people known to have fought for its winning side. (20[1])The night before this battle, the losing side camped on Caldbec Hill near a “hoar apple tree” before moving (20[1])to Senlac (20[2])Hill (20[6])the next (20[1])day. (20[14])This battle’s losing (20[1])commander died alongside his brothers Gyrth and Leofwine during it. This battle’s victor landed at (20[1])(*) Pevensey (10[2])briefly before it (10[1])and was crowned later the same year on Christmas Day. (10[1])Bishop Odo commissioned an artwork that depicts this battle’s loser dying from an arrow in his eye. (10[1])The Bayeux (“bye-YOO”) Tapestry depicts Harold Godwinson’s (10[1])death during, for 10 points, (10[1])what 1066 CE victory for William the Conqueror? ■END■ (10[2])

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