wippedsfleet

Updated: May 29, 2025

A second defeat at the passage of the Cray drove the British forces in terror upon London; but the ground was soon won back again, and it was not till 465 that a series of petty conflicts which had gone on along the shores of Thanet made way for a decisive struggle at Wippedsfleet.

John Richard Green - History of the English People, Volume I : Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216

A second defeat at the passage of the Cray drove the British forces in terror upon London; but the ground was soon won back again, and it was not till 465 that a series of petty conflicts which had gone on along the shores of Thanet made way for a decisive struggle at Wippedsfleet.

- The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04