When the Danish fleet sacked London in 851, fighting occurred at the Thames crossing as the Danes forced entry. London was then a Mercian dependency and a garrison was present. The bridge crossing was contested before the city fell. This was among the first major Danish assaults on London and prefigured later sieges.
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