Identifier: shorthistoryofen00lars (find matches)
Title: A short history of England and the British Empire
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Larson, Laurence Marcellus, 1868-1938
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Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Anglo-Saxon Weapons 42 THE OLD ENGLISH MONARCHY he came for the last time (in 1013), it was with the avowedpurpose of seizing Ethelreds kingdom. He sailed his fleetinto the Humber and up the. Trent to Gainsborough, where hebuilt his camp. Soon his army was in swift march southward
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*° LongitudeWestftomGrwrovich 2 into Wessex. A brief campaign gave him control of the entire kingdom. Ethelred fled to Normandy. After a few months, Sweyn Forkbeard suddenly died, and the English rose in revolt. Ethelred returned, and with the aid of the viking mercenaries who had remained loyal to theiragreement he drove the Danes, who were now ledby Sweyns younger son Cnut, out of the land. Cnut returned to Denmark, where his older brother was king, 1014. THE ANGLO-SCANDINAVIAN EMPIRE 43 and collected a new force of adventurers with which he invadedEngland in 1015. In this force were Danes, cnut theNorwegians, and Swedes; Ethelreds mercenaries Great-now deserted and joined their countrymen. A hard-foughtcampaign followed, during which King Ethelred died. Hisson Edmund Ironside kept up the resistance with wonderfulenergy and for a time the war promised to be a drawn battle;but in the autumn of 1016 the English suffered a crushing defeatat Ashington in East Anglia, and Cnut was maste

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