William the Conqueror landed at Hastings on the 14th of the following month with over seven thousand men, King Harold arrived with his force of up to thirteen thousand men, many of them weary from the battle and all of them weary from the march south.
A question then? If King Harold had not fought the Scandinavians at Stamford Bridge and then not had to march his army over two hundred miles south would he have succeeded at Hastings?