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As he had an insufficient army to take London by assault, he went round the city from north and west, destroying as he advanced the Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire villages in order to isolate the Londoners and hasten their surrender.

That tactic succeeded in obtaining William recognition as King, without further bloodshed. William entered the city and was crowned as legitimate heir of Edward the Confessor on Christmas Day of 1066.

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