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Anglo-Saxon rebel against William I ...

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Newspaper article from: Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England) ...madmen, the picture is far more complicated. After all, one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. Hereward the Wake may have been a heroic resistance leader in the eyes of the Saxons but he was a terrorist to the Normans, while...
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