The Isle of Thanet became a favoured Viking base for overwintering — a pattern established in 851 and repeated in 855. From Thanet, raiding parties struck Canterbury, the Thames estuary towns and the Kentish countryside with impunity. The use of offshore islands as secure bases was a characteristic Viking tactical innovation that the English were slow to counter.
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