Cnut invades England

1015

Sweyn's twenty-year-old son landed at Sandwich with a fleet said to number two hundred ships. His army rampaged through Wessex while the aging Ethelred lay ill at Cosham. Within two years Cnut would be acclaimed king of all England and begin an extraordinary North Sea imperial career. He brought with him Thorkell the Tall and an army of hardened Danish veterans spoiling for conquest.