The Battle of Stutfall was fought in 1066 during the Norman conquest of England. The Anglo-Saxon ealdorman Aelfwald of Essex led an army of 1,109 troops south from Dorchester on Thames in Oxfordshire to drive a wedge between the Norman invaders' territories in South East England and Sussex, occupying the village of Stutfall (now Lympne). Duke William the Conqueror led his 1,720-strong army to reclaim Stutfall from the Saxons, confronting the Saxons near the town. In the ensuing battle, the Norman infantry closed in for battle with the Saxons as the Norman knights outflanked the Saxons and charged the rear of their formation, smashing their army. The Saxon army was massacred, suffering 934 losses; the Normans suffered just 158 losses. Aelfwald's army was destroyed, but the Kentish ealdorman Eoforwine continued to ravage southern England until his own defeat at William FitzOsbern's hands at the Second Battle of Middeherst.