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OTHER TITLES IN THE CAMPAIGN CHRONICLES SERIES Armada 1588 John Barratt Napoleon’s Polish Gamble Eylau and Friedland 1807 Christopher Summerville Passchendaele The Hollow Victory Martin Marix Evans Attack on the Somme Haig’s Offensive 1916 Martin Pegler Salerno 1943 The Invasion of Italy Angus Konstam The Siege of Malta 1940–1942 David Williamson First published in Great Britain in 2008 by Pen & Sword Military an imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd 47 Church Street Barnsley South Yorkshire S70 2AS Copyright © Paul Hill 2008 Maps © Paul Hill and Christopher Summerville 2008 9781844684854 The right of Paul Hill to be identified as Author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or trans- mitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission from the Publisher in writing. Typeset in Linotype Centennial by Phoenix Typesetting, Auldgirth, Dumfriesshire Printed and bound in England by Biddles Ltd, King’s Lynn Pen & Sword Books Ltd incorporates the imprints of Pen & Sword Aviation, Pen & Sword Family History, Pen & Sword Maritime, Aviation, Pen & Sword Family History, Pen & Sword Maritime, Pen & Sword Military, Wharncliffe Local History, Pen & Sword Select, Pen & Sword Military Classics, Leo Cooper, Remember When, Seaforth Publishing and Frontline Publishing. For a complete list of Pen & Sword titles please contact PEN & SWORD BOOKS LIMITED 47 Church Street, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S70 2AS, England E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.pen-and-sword.co.uk Table of Contents OTHER TITLES IN THE CAMPAIGN CHRONICLES SERIES Title Page Copyright Page List of Maps, Dynastic Chart and Plates Epigraph Preface Background Campaign Chronicle Aftermath Appendix I: Orders of Battle Appendix II: Biographical Notes Appendix III: Campaign Glossary Appendix IV: Regional Lists Sources and Bibliography Index List of Maps, Dynastic Chart and Plates A popular image of Alfred burning the cakes, an allegorical tale from his months in the wilderness Statue of King Alfred at his birthplace in Wantage York, the centre of the northern world. The Scandinavians sought to link York and Dublin to challenge the power of southern English kings The Westbury White Horse supposedly marks the site of the battle of Edington, 878. The Danes were apparently camped here amid the steep ramparts of Bratton Camp Built by Henry Hoare between 1762–72 this magnificent tower commemorates the meeting place at Egbert’s Stone of the Anglo-Saxon army prior to the battle of Edington, 878 Alfred the Great as commemorated at the Temple of British Worthies, Stowe The Statue of King Alfred stands proud in the ancient West Saxon capital of Winchester King Alfred’s Castle. Built by Jeremiah Dixon (1726–82) on Tunnel Howe Hill, outside Leeds, as a tribute to the king of the Anglo-Saxons Statue of Alfred in Trinity Square, Southwark. Reputedly one of the oldest statues in London Fragment of commemorative plaque from Shaftesbury The face of the man from Repton, based on an archaeological reconstruction. This could be Ivarr Ragnarson Sculpture of Æthelflæd, Alfred’s daughter and the young Athelstan at Tamworth. Between them they would re-conquer the northern world for the Anglo-Saxons Coronation Stone in Kingston, Surrey. The son and grandsons of Alfred were crowned at this famous place in the tenth century. Neere unto this, Eastward lieth Edinton, in old time Eathandune, where King Alfred in as memorable a battell as any time else, most fortunatly vanquished the bold, insolent and outragious Danes, and drave them to this hard passe, that they swore in set forme of oath forthwith to depart out of England.
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