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Battle of Aclea

851 · 9th century

The Battle of Aclea was fought in 851 between the West Saxons under King Æthelwulf and his son Æthelbald and a large Viking army that had sacked Canterbury and London. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle calls the West Saxon victory the greatest slaughter of a heathen army ever heard of. The site, whose name means oak field, has not been identified with certainty.

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