Event: Capture, Death/dying, Injury and wounding, Invasion, Killing/murder, Slave-sellingAlfred 54.death

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Description Alfred 54 entered Britain unadvisedly with a few armed Frenchmen. Then, when he acted rashly about getting possession of the paternal kingdom, he was, by order of King Harold 5, they day, wrongfully arrested and tortured to death, and his comrades, they say, were disarmed by guile and then some murdered and the rest given to slavery to the victors.
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