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From what year to what year was he King of Wessex? |
871AD to 899AD |
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In what season did the Vikings and Anglo-Saxons usually fight? |
They usually fought in summer |
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What did the vikings do during winter? |
The Vikings would retreat into fortified settlements and Anglo-Saxon fighters would return to their home villages. |
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What happened in the winter of 878? |
The Vikings made a surprise attack, marching deep into Wessex territory. |
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What did King Alfred do? |
Taken by surprise, he and his men had to retreat back into the marshes, in a place called Athelney were they built a fort. |
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How did the Vikings cope in the marshy lands? |
They did not know the marshy lands as well as the Anglo-Saxons, so decided to wait until summer to attack, so the Anglo-Saxons used this time to send messages around Wessex to recruit men they needed to fight. |
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When did the Anglo-Saxons defeat the Danes? |
In May, both armies met near Chippenham, there the Anglo-Saxons defeated the Danes who retreated back to their camps. |
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How did the Anglo-Saxons make the vikings surrender? |
The Anglo-Saxon army surrounded the camp and soon the Anglo-Saxons surrounded the Viking camp. The started to starve and eventually begged for peace. |
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What were the terms he made the Vikings agree to? |
He let the Vikings travel to the north unharmed as long as the promised not to attack again and become Christian. |
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What did Alfred do to make sure no other Vikings invaded? |
Alfred built a number of fortified forts called 'burghs' which could be easily defended. He also organised an army where half would go and patrol the border for a year while the other stayed at home and the 2 would alternate. Finally Alfred had ships built that would patrol the English coast. This is often called England first navy. |
