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Alfred the Great

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Alfred and Wessex

Alfred the Great, king of Wessex, led the Anglo-Saxon resistance to the Vikings.

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Who was Alfred the Great?

  • Alfred the Great was King of Wessex from 871.
    • By 878, Wessex was the only surviving Anglo-Saxon kingdom (all the others had fully fallen to the Vikings).
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A united England

  • Alfred wanted to unite England as one country and defeat the Vikings.
  • In 878, Alfred gathered a large army to fight the Vikings, led by Guthrum.
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Victory

  • Alfred's army defeated the Vikings at the Battle of Edington, and they were forced to surrender.
    • Guthrum was forced to convert to Christianity.
  • Alfred had managed to unite most of England as one country, after years of it being ruled as separate kingdoms, or conquered by Vikings.

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1The Medieval World: 450-1450 AD

1.1Anglo-Saxon England

1.2The Contest for the English Throne

1.3Conquering the Holy Land, 10-96-1396 AD

1.4King John

1.5The Magna Carta & Parliament

1.6The Black Death

2Worldviews

3The Empire of Mali

4The Renaissance & Reformations, 1500-1598 AD

5The British Empire, 1583-1960 AD

6The Peasants' Revolt

7Religion in the Middle Ages

8Slavery, 1619-1833 AD

9The English Civil War, 1642-1660

10The Industrial Revolution, 1750-1840

11US Independence, 1775-1783

12The French Revolution, 1789-1815

13The British Empire, 1857–1930

14Suffrage

15World War 1, 1914-1918

16The Inter-War Years, 1919-1939

17World War 2, 1939-1945

18The Cold War, 1947-1962

19Civil Rights in the USA, 1954-1975

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