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The Vikings are defeated by the King of the Kentishmen & West Saxons
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The Vikings are defeated by the King of the Kentishmen & West Saxons
Canterbury cathedral is sacked by the Danes
The Kent coast is subject to raids from Danish pirates, and in 1011 they besiege to the City of Canterbury. Alfege, betrayed by one of his own monks, is captured and taken in one of their ships round the Kent coast and up the River Thames to Greenwich
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