Here is how Captain Arthur Hastings first describes Poirot:

Irritating to Hastings is the fact that Poirot will sometimes conceal from him important details of his plans, as in The Big Four where Hastings is kept in the dark throughout the climax.

Hastings is a man who is capable of great bravery and courage, facing death unflinchingly when confronted by The Big Four and possessing unwavering loyalty towards Poirot.

A decisive battle is one of particular importance ; often by bringing hostilities to an end, such as the Battle of Hastings or the Battle of Hattin, or as a turning point in the fortunes of the belligerents, such as the Battle of Stalingrad.

For instance, John Stuart Mill famously suggested that " the Battle of Marathon, even as an event in British history, is more important than the Battle of Hastings ".

John Stuart Mill's famous opinion was that " the Battle of Marathon, even as an event in British history, is more important than the Battle of Hastings ".

The use of crossbows in European warfare is again evident from the Battle of Hastings until about the year 1500.

On the congressional level, Ellensburg is located in Washington's 4th congressional district and is represented by Republican Doc Hastings, but it is expected to be moved into Washington's 8th congressional district for the 2012 general election and beyond.

Freenet assumes that the Darknet ( a subset of the global social network ) is a small-world network, and nodes constantly attempt to swap locations ( using the Metropolis – Hastings algorithm ) in order to minimize their distance to their neighbors.

Hastings () is a town and borough in the county of East Sussex on the south coast of England.

The first mention of Hastings is found in the late 8th century in the form Hastingas.

Symeon of Durham records the victory of Offa in 771 over the Hestingorum gens, that is, " the people of the Hastings tribe ", and the same tribe gave their name to Hastingleigh in Kent.

The place name Hæstingaceaster is found in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle entry for 1050, and may be an alternative name for Hastings.

Since 1983 it has been part of the parliamentary constituency of Hastings and Rye ; the current MP, since 2010, is Amber Rudd of the Conservative Party.

Hastings, it is thought, was a Saxon town before the arrival of the Normans: the Domesday Book refers to a new Borough: as a borough, Hastings had a corporation consisting of a " bailiff, jurats, and commonalty ".

Hastings Borough Council is now in the second tier of local government, below East Sussex County Council.

The Borough is divided into sixteen electoral wards ; Ashdown, Baird, Braybrooke, Castle, Central St Leonards, Conquest, Gensing, Hollington, Maze Hill, Old Hastings, Ore, St Helens, Silverhill, Tressell, West St Leonards and Wishing Tree

Hastings is situated where the sandstone beds, at the heart of the Weald, known geologically as the Hastings Sands, meet the English Channel, forming tall cliffs to the east of the town.

In the short story The Chocolate Box ( 1923 ) Poirot provides Captain Arthur Hastings with an account of what he considers to be his only failure.

Poirot had been forcibly retired from the Belgian police force prior to the time he met Hastings in 1916 as a refugee on the case retold in The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

Notably, during this time his physical characteristics also change dramatically, and by the time Arthur Hastings meets Poirot again in Curtain, he looks very different from his previous appearances, having become thin with age and with obviously dyed hair.

Poirot was buried at Styles, and his funeral was arranged by his best friend Hastings and Hastings ' daughter Judith.

Hastings, a former British Army officer, first meets Poirot during Poirot's years as a police officer in Belgium and almost immediately after they both arrive in England.

Poirot regards Hastings as a poor private detective, not particularly intelligent, yet helpful in his way of being fooled by the criminal or seeing things the way the average man would see them, and for his tendency to unknowingly " stumble " onto the truth.

" Poirot and Hastings are reunited in Curtain: Poirot's Last Case, having been earlier reunited in The ABC Murders and Dumb Witness when Hastings arrives in England for business.

Murders Poirot mentions to Hastings his vision of an ideal case.

Styles was Christie's first published novel, introducing Hercule Poirot, Inspector ( later, Chief Inspector ) Japp, and Lieutenant Hastings ( later, Captain ).

Lieutenant Hastings, a houseguest, enlists the help of his friend Hercule Poirot, who is staying in the nearby village, Styles St. Mary.

* Hercule Poirot, a famous Belgian detective displaced by the war to England ; Hastings ' old friend

It is narrated by Dr. James Sheppard, who becomes Poirot's assistant ( a role filled by Captain Hastings in several other Poirot novels ).

The book features the characters of Hercule Poirot, Arthur Hastings and Chief Inspector Japp.

The story starts with Hastings meeting Poirot after almost a year.

Poirot is also aided by his friends Hastings and Japp, while an Inspector Crome and a Dr. Thompson are also roped in.

After pondering over the issue, Poirot praises Hastings for his ingenuity ( which leaves him puzzled, as according to him he had done nothing extraordinary ) and calls upon a Legion meeting.

This was why Poirot had praised Hastings.

Later, Poirot shocks Hastings by telling him that the " fingerprint on the typewriter " was a bluff.

Poirot remarks that they indeed went on a hunting trip ( something that Hastings was always planning to do throughout the novel ).

He admits that William the Conqueror, another descendant of this dynasty, generally enjoyed good health but points out that William fell seriously ill following the Battle of Hastings ( 1066 ), resting for a month near Canterbury.

It can be reached by walking from Hastings along the hilly clifftop path until a signpost points out a pathway leading down the cliff to the cove.

The outcome of Hastings, as presented by William, was by no means inevitable and he makes it clear that the battle was one of the key turning points in English history.

The Hastings Alliance, which is supported by 11 national bodies including the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England, the Council for National Parks and WWF-UK and also 16 local groups points to the Hastings Five Point Plan, commissioned by the South East Regional Assembly, which found that the key requirement for regeneration is to " improve the strategic accessibility of Hastings – that is Hastings ’ access to London, other major towns, and other parts of the South East " and says that improving rail links are fundamental to regenerating that area.

Nearby points of interest include the Ludlow Monument, a monument to the coal miners and their families who were killed in the 1914 massacre, the Hastings coke ovens, and the Victor American Hastings Mine Disaster Monument.

Pevensie takes perhaps after Pevensey, on the southeast coast of England, which is the site of a medieval castle that figures importantly in British history at several points — primarily, indeed, as the site where Duke William of Normandy ( William the Conqueror ) arrived in England during the Norman invasion in 1066 ; He would go on to become the King of the English after his decisive 1066 victory over Harold II Godwinson in the Battle of Hastings.

Hastings described his time as Attorney General as " my idea of hell "-he was the only Law Officer available, since the Solicitor General was not a Member of Parliament, and as a result had to answer all queries about points of law in Parliament.

Until his record was overtaken by Chris Paterson on 7 June 2008, Hastings was the all-time record points scorer in the Scottish national rugby union team, with 667 points in test matches.

:" For the record though, here is an abridged version of one of the most impressive curriculum vitae in British rugby ; Hastings captained the first Scottish schoolboys ' side to win on English soil ; he captained the victorious 1985 Cambridge University side ; he won the Gallacher Shield with Auckland University during his sabbatical year ; he was a central figure in Scotland's 1990 Grand Slam ... he captained Scotland in one World Cup, and played in two others, including a semi-final ; he captained his country and scored the winning try when Scotland registered their first win at the Parc des Princes ... he played for the World XV in the New Zealand Centenary Celebrations ; and he holds the British points-scoring record with 733 points in tests for Scotland and the Lions.

He also made his mark with Scotland, setting a new record of 24 points in a Six Nations game, and went on to equal Gavin Hastings ’ record of scoring 100 points in just nine Test matches.

At Hastings 1895, often considered the strongest tournament of the nineteenth century, he finished tied for 12th – 14th with 9½ points of 21 possible.

He also played at Hastings 1895, the strongest tournament held up to that point, finishing in joint twelfth place with 9½ points out of 21.

Poirot points out to Hastings again the absurdity of the despatch case being forced but left in the suitcase.