"Nah, you know he made Schanke do all that."

Of course! What are partners for, after all? Especially when you can whammy them.

As for the Battle of Hastings, there is actually a whole wiki articla about it in the Forever Knight Wiki. (I should know: I wrote it.) It has a section with some quotations from fan discussion on FORKNI-L, as well as a short list of fanfic that deals with the "Battle of Hastings problem" in a variety of ways. One of which I also wrote!