Sweyn Forkbeard destroys Exeter
1003
The Danish king's fleet sailed into the Exe estuary and took the old walled town with the help of a Norman reeve who betrayed the gates. The raid was one of many across Wessex that year. Ethelred's counterattack under Ulfcytel fared better in the east, but it was too late to save the countryside.
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Also in 1003 (3 other events on record)
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Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.