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Battle of Hingston Down

838 · 9th century

The Battle of Hingston Down was fought in 838 at Hingston Down in east Cornwall, near the River Tamar, where Ecgberht of Wessex defeated a combined army of Cornish Britons and Danish Vikings. Recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, it is the last recorded battle between the Cornish and the West Saxons and is seen as the end of effective Cornish independence.

Battle of Hingston Down
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Kingdom of Cornwall

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