When William was 8 years old, he be<span>came duke of Normandy and later King of England. Violence plagued his early reign, but with the help of King Henry I of France,</span>William<span> managed to survive the early years. After the Battle of Hastings, in 1066, he was crowned king of England.</span>
1948–49, to force the Western Allied powers (the United States<span>, the </span>United Kingdom<span>, and </span>France<span>) to abandon their post-World War II jurisdictions in </span>West Berlin. In March 1948 the Allied powers decided to unite their different occupation zones of Germany<span> into a single economic unit.</span>
Answer: The Siege of Vicksburg was a great victory for the Union. It gave control of the Mississippi River to the Union. Around the same time, the Confederate army under General Robert E. Lee was defeated at the Battle of Gettysburg. These two victories marked the major turning point of the Civil War in favor of the Union.
