The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records one of the most complete massacres in early Anglo-Saxon history: "Aelle and Cissa besieged Andredesceaster, and slew all the inhabitants; there was not even one Briton left there." The Roman Saxon Shore fort at Pevensey (Anderida) had sheltered the last Romano-British holdouts in Sussex. Its fall effectively completed the South Saxon conquest of the coastal region.
Entire garrison and civilian population killed
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