The Cornish allied with a Danish fleet and together marched into Devon. Ecgberht met them at Hingston Down near the River Tamar and defeated both. The Chronicle records a great slaughter. This was the last significant attempt at Cornish resistance; thereafter Cornwall was gradually absorbed into Wessex and Anglo-Saxon settlement began in earnest.
Great slaughter of the combined Danish-Cornish force
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