Alfred personal campaign on the River Lea in 895 was an act of strategic engineering. The Chronicle records that while overseeing the harvest, Alfred noticed that the river could be made impassable to the Danish ships by building forts on both banks and diverting the water. The Danes, seeing their ships trapped, abandoned them and marched overland to the Severn, where they wintered at Bridgnorth. The captured ships were either sailed to London or broken up. This was Alfred last major field campaign.
West Saxon royal army under Alfred personally
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