The Second Battle of Wilton was a battle fought between the Normans and the Anglo-Saxons in Wiltshire in 1066 amid the Norman conquest of England. The English general Aelfwald had raised a fyrd at Chippenham, Wiltshire to crush a local rebellion by the Saxon thegn Ricsige, and, after Ricsige was dealt with, Aelfwald marched his army past Ethandun and to the town of Wilton, which he occupied without resistance. In response, the Norman nobleman William FitzOsbern left Winchester with an army of 1,255 troops and marched on Wilton, aiming to crush the invading army. In the ensuing battle, the Norman army outflanked the numerically-inferior Saxon force as the Norman cavalry charged around the Saxon army and slammed into their vulnerable rear, destroying their force and massacring its retreating soldiers. Aelfwald and most of his men were killed, and the remnants of his army melted away into the countryside. This victory occurred concurrently with Robert Curthose's invasion of Essex (taking Tilbury before occupying Maldon and taking Colchester) and with William the Conqueror's capture of Basing and Shaftesbury.