Cnut besieged London in 1016, digging a channel around London Bridge to bypass its defences — a remarkable feat of military engineering. The city resisted until Edmund Ironside's death in November 1016, when the surviving English nobility accepted Cnut as king. The siege demonstrated London's remarkable defensive strength even against the Danish king who had conquered the rest of England.
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