The Chronicle records that Aethelwulf and his son Aethelbald fought the heathen army at Acleah and made the greatest slaughter of a heathen army that we ever heard of to this present day. The Danish force had previously sacked Canterbury and put the Mercian king to flight. Its destruction at Acleah in Surrey or Kent was a major English triumph.
Greatest recorded slaughter of Danish forces to that date
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