Operation Hastings , a series of actions in defense of the DMZ , lasted from 15 July to 3 August 1966 .

Alfred Smuth has called Name_conferral the battle Military_operation `` the greatest single battle Hostile_encounter in Anglo-Saxon history before Hastings '' .

It was then common for services Being_in_operation from Hastings to Brighton to enter Arriving Eastbourne and reverse Change to carry on its journey .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Hastings was fought on 14 October 1066 between the Norman-French army of William , the Duke of Normandy , and an English army under the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson , beginning Process_start the Norman conquest of England .

It took place Process_start approximately northwest of Hastings , close to the present-day town of Battle Hostile_encounter , East Sussex , and was a decisive Norman victory .

Harold appears Change_sentiment to have tried to surprise William , but scouts found Know his army and reported Reporting its arrival to William , who marched Self_motion from Hastings to the battlefield Hostile_encounter to confront Harold .

There continued to be rebellions and resistance to William 's rule , but Hastings effectively marked Recording the culmination of William 's conquest of England .

The Little Baldon air crash Damaging occurred Coming_to_be on 6 July 1965 when a Handley Page Hastings C1A transport aircraft operated Being_in_operation by No .