Aethelflaed and Edward
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I can explain how the campaigns of Aethelflaed and her brother Edward laid the foundations for the birth of England.
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After her husband’s death in 911, Aethelflaed worked with her brother Edward, King of Wessex to attack the Vikings.
She captured Tamworth, Mercia’s old capital, and used it as a base from which to drive back the Vikings.
At the same time, her brother Edward won numerous victories against the Vikings in East Anglia.
In 917 Aethelflaed launched an assault on the Viking town of Derby, capturing it, followed by Leicester soon after.
On the eve of Aethelflaed's death in 918, only York remained as a Viking stronghold.
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