Aethelwulf and his son Aethelbald won the greatest English victory over the Vikings to that date at Acleah (possibly Oak Lea in Surrey). The Chronicle records that never before had so great a slaughter been made of a heathen army. A Viking force that had wintered in England for the first time in 850-851 was destroyed.
The greatest slaughter of heathen forces recorded to that date
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