Battle of Reading (871)

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		In 871, the Danish army entered Wessex, and even after a major battle between Æthelred, Alfred, and the Danes at Reading, the Danish army kept the field.
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		Events 871 - Battle of Reading - Ethelred of Wessex fights a Danish invasion army.
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	Alfred the Great - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A successful skirmish at Battle of Englesfield, Berkshire ( 31 December 870), was followed by a severe defeat at the Battle of Reading( 4 January 871), and this, four days later, by the brilliant victory of Battle of Ashdown, near Compton Beauchamp in Shrivenham Hundred.
		On 22 January 871 the English were again defeated at Basing, and on 22 March 871 at Marton, Wiltshire, the two unidentified battles having perhaps occurred in the interval.
		Alfred was born sometime between 847 and 849 AD at Wantage in Berkshire (alterations to county borders in 1974 mean that Wantage is now part of Oxfordshire), the fourth son of King Ethelwulf of Wessex (or Ãthelwulf), most likely by his first wife, Osburh.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alfred_the_Great (3931 words)

	Ethelred of Wessex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On January 4, 871 at the Battle of Reading Ethelred defeated a Danish invasion army.
		However, he was killed at the Battle of Merton on April 23, 871 and is buried at Wimborne in Dorset.
		Ethelred I was not able to control the increasing Danish raids which devastated England.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ethelred_of_Wessex (145 words)

	Alfred the Great, King of England
		In 871, the Danish army entered Wessex, and even after a major battle between Æthelred, Alfred, and the Danes at Reading, the Danish army kept the field.
		Within a month of becomming king in 871, Alfred defeated a large Danish force at Wilton.
		In 870, the army again returned to East Anglia through Mercia, and there King Edmund of the Angles fought with them, but was defeated and slain.
	www.ghg.net /shetler/oldimp/393.html (511 words)

	Folklore Posts by wysefool The Modern Antiquarian Folklore Posts by wysefool
		In 871, the Danes, after leaving Reading, are said in the Saxon Chronicle to have 'turned along Ashdown to Cwichelm's hlaew' just before the battle of Ashdown.
		Cwichelm was a chieftan or prince in authority under the King of Wessex, and he may well have defended the line of the downs against the advance of the Mercians, as his son Cuthred did, somewhat later.
		In 1006 the Danes, after burning Wallingford and Cholsey, turned again to Cwichelm's hlaew, and stayed there out of bravado, because it had often been said that if they came to Cwichelm's hlaew they would never go to the sea.
	www.themodernantiquarian.com /user/4322/folklore (511 words)

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