The Dragon And the Raven : Or, the Days of King Alfred
The book The Dragon And the Raven : Or, the Days of King Alfred was written by author G a George Alfred Henty Here you can read free online of The Dragon And the Raven : Or, the Days of King Alfred book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Dragon And the Raven : Or, the Days of King Alfred a good or bad book?
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!No assault was made upon the Danish camp. Con- fident in his now vastly superior numbers, and in the enthusiasm which reigned in his army, Alfred was unwilling: to waste a single life in an attack upon the intrenchments, which must ere long sur- render from famine. There was no risk of rein- forcements arriving to relieve the Danes. Guthorn had led to the battle the whole fighting force of the Danes in Wessex and East Anglia. This was far smaller than it would have been a year earlier; but 2HE... DRAGON AND THE RA VEN. 189 the Northmen, having once completed their work of pillage, soon turned to fresh fields of adventure. Those whose disposition led them to prefer a quiet life had settled upon the land from which they had dispossessed the Saxons; but the principal bands of rovers, finding that England was exhausted and that no more plunder could be had, had either gone back to enjoy at home the booty they had gained, or had sailed to harry the shores of France, Spain, and Italy. Thus the position of the Danes in Chippenham was desperate, and at the end of fourteen days, by which time they were reduced to an extremity by hunger, they sent messengers into the royal camp offering their submission.
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