Edmund Ironside won a notable victory at Otford in Kent, driving the Danish army back and pursuing them into the Isle of Sheppey. This was one of several English victories in the extraordinary 1016 campaign. Edmund fought five major battles in one year — an almost superhuman military effort — but each victory was incomplete, failing to destroy Cnut's army. The inability to achieve a decisive knockout blow ultimately doomed the English cause.
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