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commander, 5 engagements

Battles of Thorkell the Tall

Battles of Thorkell the Tall

Jomsviking, AD 901 to 1100

Thorkell the Tall is recorded as a commander at 5 placed engagements in the atlas between 1010 and 1016: 4 battles and 1 siege, all in present-day United Kingdom. Taken in date order, the sites lie 341 km apart end to end, 85 km between engagements on average. Most belong to human history (3).

Battle of RingmereSiege of CanterburyCnut the Great's invasion of EnglandBattle of BrentfordBattle of AssandunBattle of RingmereSiege of CanterburyCnut the Great's invasion of EnglandBattle of BrentfordBattle of AssandunBirminghamManchesterLilleNottinghamBrightonPortsmouthStokeLutonOxfordNorwich100 km52.047N, 0.522E
5 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

1010: 1 engagements1011: 1 engagements1016: 3 engagements3 in 101610101016
5 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

Battle of Ringmere, 1010Siege of Canterbury, 1011Cnut the Great's invasion of England, 1016Battle of Brentford, 1016Battle of Assandun, 101610101016
One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 1

Engagements by date

DateEngagementPlaceFrom the lastResult
1010Battle of RingmereEast Anglia, United KingdomDanish victory
8 September 1011Siege of CanterburyCanterbury, United Kingdom172 km SViking victory
1016Cnut the Great's invasion of EnglandEngland, United Kingdom99 km WCnut's victory
1016Battle of BrentfordBrentford, United Kingdom0 km NAnglo-Saxon victory
18 October 1016Battle of AssandunEssex, United Kingdom71 km EDanish victory

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, Ole Ryhl Olsson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.