Aclea, battle of
Aclea, battle of, 851. This was a major victory for King Æthelwulf of Wessex over Danish raiders. From 835 the Danes had launched a series of heavy plundering attacks on the south of England, and in 850, for the first time, wintered on Thanet in Kent. Men from 350 ships stormed Canterbury and London, driving the Mercian king Beorhtwulf and his army to flight, before facing the West Saxon king and his son Æthelbald south of the Thames. The Wessex men made ‘the greatest slaughter of a heathen host’ heard of to that day.
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