Battle of Mount Badon

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Article abstract: Type of action: Ground battle in defense of Britain. Result: Significant defeat of the Saxons.

Although the historical evidence for the Battle of Mount Badon is thin, there is little reason to doubt it. It is referred to by Gildas in his De Excidio Britanniæ (The Ruin of Britain), written sometime in the late 540’s. He dates it to the year of his birth, forty-three years earlier. This would place the battle around 503. However the Annales Cambriæ (Welsh Annals) date it at 516, and a later date has much in its...

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