After Farnham, the defeated Danish army was cornered on a marshy island at Thorney (in the Thames estuary). Alfred's forces besieged it but had to send troops west when a separate Danish army raided from Exeter. The complex 893 campaign across multiple theatres illustrated Alfred's strategic burden: the new army and burhs helped, but simultaneous threats on different fronts remained nearly unmanageable.
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