Alfred the Great at the Battle of Ashdown François Pascal Simon Gérard Stanley Matthews jumps over Roy

Stanley Matthews jumps over Roy Bentley of Fulham

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Alfred the Great at the Battle of Ashdown François Pascal Simon Gérard Stanley Matthews jumps over RoyAlfred the Great at the Battle of Ashdown, 871 (1913). Alfred the Great (849 899) at the Battle of Ashdown, 8 January 871, leading the West Saxon army of his brother, King Ethelred, to victory against the invading Danes. Illustration from The Northmen in Britain by Eleanor Means Hull, published 1913.