Having been driven from Chester by starvation, the Danish force returned to Essex and established a camp on Mersea Island. The Chronicle records that in the autumn of 894 the Danes towed their ships up the Thames and then up the Lea to a position twenty miles above London, where they built a new fort. This move threatened London and the Thames valley, prompting Alfred to personally oversee the counter-operation.
Reconstituted Danish army with fleet
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