Vikings Crushed at Tettenhall: England's Future Secured
The allied armies of Mercia and Wessex destroyed the last major Danish raiding force to invade England at the Battle of Tettenhall, killing two Danish kings and shattering Viking military capacity south of the Humber River. King Edward the Elder and Earl Aethelred of Mercia coordinated the ambush against a Danish army returning from a raid into Mercia laden with plunder. The decisive victory removed the greatest military threat to the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and cleared the path toward eventual English unification under Edward's successors.
August 5, 910
1116 years ago
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