King Aethelwulf of Wessex won what the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle calls "the greatest slaughter of a heathen host" to that date. The Danes had sacked Canterbury and London that same year. The victory at Acleah (possibly Oakley in Surrey) temporarily checked Danish raiding in the south.
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