2-713-433 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Combat between Edmund Ironside and Canute the Great', 1773. Edmund Ironside, King of England, 23 April -30 November 1016 resisted the Danish invasion of Canute the Great (994-1035) in five battles, ending in defeat on 18 October at the Battle of Assandun. After Samuel Wale (1721-1786). From "A New and Complete History of England, From the Earliest Period of Authentic Intelligence to the Present Time", by Temple Sydney. [J. Cooke, London, 1773]