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The invading Danes fought so fiercely that Edmund Ironside, the young English king, threw all caution to the wind.
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Britain’s desperate defence against a much larger, better-prepared military machine was a costly victory.
Athelstan confirmed himself as King of the English, and also reawakened a feeling that all Britain should be a united people.
It rankled with Henry II that Wales did not pay to him the honour she had paid to his great-grandfather, William the Conqueror.
Two years into the American Civil War, the Union army responded to a dispiriting defeat at Chancellorsville with a decisive and historic victory at Gettysburg.
King Philip V of Spain sent a second Spanish Armada against Britain, but it suffered much the same fate as the first.