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The Battle of Wippedesfleot between the Britons and the English in 465 is thought to have taken ... "On the east of Kent is the large Isle of Thanet containing ...
In late 865, the Great Heathen Army encamped in the Isle of Thanet and was promised by the people of Kent danegeld in exchange for peace. Regardless, the Vikings did not abide by this agreement and proceeded to rampage across eastern Kent. [38] The Vikings used East Anglia as a starting point for an invasion.
In 853 there was a battle in Thanet against the Vikings and both Elcherel the leader of the men from Kent, and Huda the leader of the men from Surrey were killed. [34] [c] Thanet's monasteries were subsequently used by the Danes as feasting halls or general headquarters. [31]
The Battle of Hattin took place on 4 July 1187, between the Crusader states of the Levant and the forces of the Ayyubid sultan Saladin. It is also known as the Battle of the Horns of Hattin , due to the shape of the nearby extinct volcano of that name .
HMS Thanet was an S-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. Built during, and commissioned shortly after the First World War , she went on to see service in the Second World War , and was sunk early in 1942.
Royal Air Force Manston or more simply RAF Manston is a former Royal Air Force station located in the north-east of Kent, at grid reference on the Isle of Thanet from 1916 until 1996.
The cliffs of the Isle of Thanet are composed of chalk, a fossil-bearing rock. Margate gives its name to the relatively unknown yet influential Battle of Margate, starting on 24 March 1387, it was the last major naval battle of the Caroline War phase of the Hundred Years' War.
Battle on the River Glein – Arthur, general of the British forces, and the British kings defeat the Anglo-Saxons.; Second, third and fourth battles of Arthur at the river Dubglas in Linnuis - thought to be the old Kingdom of Lindsey, where he led the Britons to victory over the Anglo-Saxons at each battle.