The Chronicle records that in 851 a Danish fleet of 350 ships attacked Canterbury, stormed and sacked it. This was part of the largest Viking raid on southern England to that date — the same campaign that sacked London and was eventually defeated at Ockley (Acleah) by Aethelwulf. The scale (350 ships would represent perhaps 15,000 warriors) shows the growing ambition of Danish operations.
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