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	Battle of Badon Hill - Cunnan
		Recorded in the Easter Annals, the Battle of Badon Hill (Mynydd Baddon in Old Welsh) is a relatively obscure battle which took place in England sometime in the early 6th Century.
		While the details of the battle are largely lost, historical evidence indicates that, when Aelle led a Saxon host west from the Saxon Shore to strike at Briton-held Shropshire, he was ambushed by Arthur's smaller force.
		The Battle of Badon Hill is relatively unknown, but it likely bought the various kingdoms of native Britons another generation or so of life before the waves of invaders from continental Europe would overwhelm them and drive the survivors into Wales and Ireland.
	cunnan.sca.org.au /index.php?title=Battle_of_Badon_Hill&redirect=no (424 words)

	Battle of Mons Badonicus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the Battle of Mons Badonicus (English Mount Badon, Welsh Mynydd Baddon) Romano-British and Celts inflicted a severe defeat on an invading Anglo-Saxon army sometime in the decade before or after 500.
		The location of this battle probably lies on the frontier between the territories of the native British inhabitants and the Anglo-Saxon invaders; or it may have been the fate of a deep Anglo-Saxon invasion of British territory to try to separate the Welsh from the Britons of the southwest.
		While the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is silent about this battle, it documents a gap of almost seventy years between two major Anglo-Saxon leaders, or Bretwaldas, in the fifth and sixth centuries.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Badon_Hill (1588 words)

	King Arthur's 12th Battle - Badon Hill
		Ant Battle of Badon is unlikely to have been any further north than Liddington because there were not enough British and Saxon forces further north for one battle to have halted the entire Saxon invasion.
		The battle is referred to as that of Badon Hill and it has been suggested that Mount Badon is one of the hills on the outskirts of Bath, with Little Solsbury Hill is the most popular suggestion.
		Bowden Hill, south of the Scottish town of Linlithgow, has a claim to be the battle site of Badon Hill, a claim which relies mostly on its name and is favoured as the battlesite among those who believe that Arthur was a northen British king.
	www.legendofkingarthur.co.uk /battles/12-badon-hill.htm (465 words)

	The Battle of Mount Badon: Annotated Bibliography
		Although the passage is short by comparison to many of the later renditions of the battle of Badon, Nennius is clearly one of the fathers of the literary tradition drawn on in almost as many cases as Geoffrey of Monmouth.
		Instead, Badon becomes the battle of 'Bath,' and while most scholars generally agree that if there was to be a historical site for the battle of Badon, it would be a large hill outside of the city of Bath, it is by no means a proven fact.
		The battle itself is quite short, but it sees a return to an earlier style of panegyric; Arthur is not merely the general, but is the one who singlehandedly holds a breach in place while the remainder of his men fight the rest of the battle.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/Badon/badonbib.htm (11286 words)

	Castle Reshka - King Arthur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Badon Hill, depending on varying sources and archeological evidence, was fought sometime between 491 and 516 (Gildas, born in 494, wrote that the battle took place at the year of his birth) with most scholars believing about 500 to be the right time.
		The location of the battle is thought to have been in southwest England, perhaps near the town on Bath (called Badon by the Saxons) or the nearby Solsbury Hill, where an ancient hillfort existed.
		Badon Hill was fought between the British and the invading Saxons, believed to have been the South Saxons under their Bretanwealda (Lord of Britain, also spelled Bretwalda) Aelle, whose reign was 477-c.
	www.castlereshka.com /vbb/showthread.php?t=19405 (3017 words)

	Dagorhir Battle Games: Battles and Upcoming Events
		Battles typically run at least four hours with varying scenarios & breaks.
		Roundtree Park in Annandale, VA September 27-30, 2007 Annual Fall Campout Regional Event: The Battle of Badon Hill II at Pioneer Park Campground in Somerset, PA October 27, 2007 Annual Halloween Monster Bash at Redland Middle School in Rockville, MD Nov 24, 2007 Thanksgiving Battle
		September 28-30, 2007 Annual Fall Campout Regional Event: The Battle of Badon Hill at Pioneer Park Campground in Somerset, PA Subscribe to Aratari Battles!
	www.dagorhir.org /Schedule/schedule.htm (297 words)

	BRITANNIA'S INDIAN SUMMER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The sixth battle was in Celyddon Forest, that is, the Battle of Celyddon Coed.
		The twelfth battle was on Badon Hill and in it nine hundred and sixty men fell in one day, from a single charge of Arthur's ; and he was victorious in all his campaigns'.
		The fact that one battle was fought 'in the city of the legion' - that is either Chester or Caerleon - suggests that it was fought against Celtic kingdoms being consolidated in the west rather than against Saxon forces to the east.
	www.tourism.powys.gov.uk /~sionp/hanesfa.celticawales.com/celtiaid/pennod6/p49.html (638 words)

	King Arthur: A Man for the Ages--Arthur, king or battle commander?
		Arthur was conceived amidst a war and was mortally wounded in a particularly bloody battle.
		The king who was the symbol of the prosperity of the nation and the land was sick in his heart and his soul and had sinned against his God; the nation and the land would surely suffer as well.
		And so Arthur died or was mortally wounded (take your pick) in a battle as a battle commander who was king of all the land.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/4186/Arthur/htmlpages/kingarthurfaq1.html (948 words)

	The Nitpickers Site: Movie Nitpick - King Arthur - 2004Nitpickers.com - Movie Mistakes - Post and review nitpicks on ...
		The climactic battle of the film is referred to as the battle of Badon.
		This would be Mons Badonicus or Badon Hill, the battle fought by the Britons, led by Arthur, against the Saxons.
		And the Battle of Badon Hill in the film occurs at Hadrians Wall, hundreds of miles away from the most likely location of the real battle.
	www.nitpickers.com /movies/nitpick.cgi?np=75919 (349 words)

	King Arthur in History and Legend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Through these few sources we can discover that the Battle of Badon Hill seems to have been a significant event, and hints at the existence of a famed war leader for the Britons, a leader whose exploits may have provided the basis of the Arthur legends.
		This record states that Arthur in fact died in battle - "The Battle of Camlann, in which Arthur...fell." - a statement that would certainly lead to the assumption that he was, indeed, some sort of military official.
		He may have been the one to lead the Britons to a victory over the Saxons at Badon Hill, but a lack of evidence, and contradictions in what evidence there is, are the main obstacles to an understanding of the 'real' Arthur.
	www.dicksonc.act.edu.au /Showcase/ClioContents/legends/kingarthur.html (1496 words)

	Corvus '99 - Badbury Rings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The siege itself was also the capstone conflict of eleven previous battles led by Arthur and where, tradition says, the Saxon advance into Britain was finally halted.
		If this meant a retaking of Badon, then the search for Badon should be in an area the Saxons had reached by 516 but had not conquered by 665.
		The claim is based primarily on the similarity in the names, but there is also a degree of incidental evidence supported by its strategic importance and the fact that it was, like Cadbury, re-fortified during the Arthurian period.
	members.aol.com /corvus1999/bad.htm (313 words)

	The derivation of the date of the Arthurian entries in the Annales Cambriae from Bede and Gildas, by Howard Wiseman
		The battle of Badon [Bellum Badonis], in which Arthur carried the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ for three days and three nights on his shoulders and the Britons were victorious.
		His battles are inserted between the death of Hengest, Saxon king of Kent, and the rise of Ida, king of the Bernicians.
		The battle of Badon Hill was certainly a real and significant event (whether the leader of the Britons was named Arthur or not), and it is possible that there was an historical battle of Camlann also.
	www.vortigernstudies.org.uk /artgue/guesthoward.htm (5151 words)

	King Arthur: The Places
		As with Badon Hill, the location has yet to be conclusively proven.
		Also thought to be the hill wherein Merlin made his name famous by seeing the Red and White Dragons.
		Legend has it that the famous abbey was the inspiration of the community's first great leader, Joseph of Arimathea, not coincidentally the legendary bearer of the Holy Grail to Britain.
	geocities.com /CapitolHill/4186/Arthur/htmlpages/kingarthurplaces.html (1241 words)

	An Arthurian FAQ
		Finally, was the British leader at Badon anything like the Arthur of medieval legend, or did he just contribute the historical framework and the battle of Badon to the later legend?
		Bizarre notions of the victor of Badon as someone who rode with a band of knights all around late 5th-century/early 6th-century Britain are a modern academic fantasy.
		Arthur is certainly described as a 'leader of battles' (dux bellorum) in the Historia Brittonum but, as Jackson and others have pointed out, this doesn't necessarily mean he wasn't a king.
	www.arthuriana.co.uk /n&q/arthfaq.htm (1958 words)

	EBK: King Arthur's Battles
		"The seventh battle was in the Caledonian Forest, that is, the Battle of Celidon Coit":
		This quote suffers from the same problems as that for the Battle of Badon in the Annales Cambriae: the Welsh words for shield and shoulder being confused.
		Perhaps the battle was connected with King Lot of Gododdin being one of the eleven kings who rebelled against Arthur at the beginning of his reign.
	www.earlybritishkingdoms.com /arthur/kabattles.html (1990 words)

	EARTHSONGS: The Journal of the Society of Celtic Shamans, Volume 8, Issue 3, Lughnasadh 2004, Copyright (c) 2004
		As you know, the actual location of the Battle of Badon Hill has been long and hotly contested, and I am not going to involve myself in that controversy.
		So whether it was in Caledon in the north or at Bath Hill in the south, the battle is firmly placed in the 6th century, not the 5th, and therefore was fought between seventy-five to one hundred fifty years after Bruckheimer's "King Arthur".
		Even if we agree the Battle of Badon Hill was fought at, on, or very near Hadrian's Wall, the movie's date does not agree with the historical record.
	www.faeryshaman.org /es83/es83reg1.htm (2825 words)

	Badon, - G. & L. Rhead's "Arthur at Mount Badon" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Recorded in the Easter Annals, the Battle of Badon Hill is a reletively obscure battle which took place in England sometime in the early 6th Century.
		Mount Badon is the supposed site of one of Arthur's twelve battles against the Saxons.
		Nennius recounted the twelve battles in the ninth century.
	cardcyber.com /?q=badon (176 words)

	king arthur, fact, semi -legend or Myth - Part 1
		The existence of the 'Battle of Badon', mentioned in both the previous books is confirmed by the third book, written during the so-called 'Dark Ages'.
		Geoffrey of Monmouth (See Geoffrey of Monmouth) writing the 'Historia Regum Britanniae', the History of the Kings of Britain, in AD1147, indicates that the Battle of Badon took place in Bath, when the same Arthur in the same location described by Nennius was victorious over the Saxons.
		Of some dispute still is the exact date of the battle as early Welsh records indicate that it may have taken place not in AD516, but in AD518, but what we do know is that the battle took place.
	www.mystical-www.co.uk /king_arthur/1.html (1497 words)

	Badon Hill: The Importance of Defending Bath
		One of the chief mysteries of the story of King Arthur is where the famous Battle of Badon Hill was.
		If Badon Hill was indeed outside or even near Bath, it would have been a strategic convergence of two warring enemies bent on gaining control for good of a Roman jewel in a faded crown.
		As such, it was a prime target for the ever-westward-moving Saxons as well, for as conquerors they showed the inevitable need to replace what they had destroyed or at the very least hang on to what they had gained control of.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/ancient_british_history/53504 (310 words)

	Bath
		Perhaps, the Battle of Badon should be seen as Arthur's attempt to protect Bath from the invaders.
		Depending upon whose view point you take, either this famous battle is one of the only historical events which can be linked to Arthur with a fair degree of certainty or to others this link is based upon spurious historical foundations.
		The twelfth battle was on Badon Hill, in which 960 men fell in one day from a single charge of Arthur's, and no one laid them low save he alone; and he was victorious in all his campaigns.
	arthurianadventure.com /bath.htm (602 words)

	battles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Four battles at the River Dubglas, a region of Linnuis
		The Battle of Cat Coit Celidon, in Caledonian Forest
		Battle on the bank of the River Tribruit
	students.mountainstate.edu /students/rsarver/battles.htm (27 words)

	Somerset - Land of Legend & the Arthurian Adventures
		The pagan temple on Creech Hill, LAMYATT, was probably succeeded by a Christian oratory and cemetery.
		The hero of Nennius is King Arthur the warrior, who fought and won twelve battles against the English, the last and greatest the battle of Badon Hill.
		It is agreed that there was a battle at Badon Hill, more likely in the 490’s than precisely in 516, but Badon Hill has not been found; Badbury Rings in Dorset or a site near Bath find greatest support.
	www.somerset.gov.uk /celebratingsomerset/kingarthur/page1.htm (387 words)

	Badon Battle
		Charford, in southcentral England, is another locale which claims to be the site for the battle of Badon.
		Arthur's Battle of Badon remains an enigma; since the publication of both my books, The Historic King Arthur and Historic Figures of the Arthurian Era, no revelations in archaeology or discovery of manuscripts heretofore hidden has provided fresh information.
		I believe, therefore, that the Bath/Badon material used by Morris cannot promulgate the theory that the Battle of Badon was fought on a tor adjacent to the city of Bath.
	kingarthura-z.home.att.net /Badon.html (1111 words)

	Rotten Tomatoes Forums - "King Arthur" vs "Quest for King Arthur"
		However, Aurelianus would have been too old to have participated in the one battle that most later writers (including Malory, whose Morte D’Arthur is still the definitive version of the Arthurian myth) agree that Arthur participated in: the Battle of Badon Hill.
		This was the final great Battle against the Saxons, which was fought around 500 A.D. According to the HC, this battle was won because the Saxons were on foot and the Britons were on horseback.
		There is, in fact, a decisive battle at the end of “King Arthur”, but I cannot for the life of me recall if it was supposed to be the Battle of Badon hill or not.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/showthread.php?t=343619 (3875 words)

	The Lodge Room UK - Freemasonry Discussions and Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It is certain that the Battle of Badon Hill, wherever and whenever it was, set the Saxon occupation back for a good many years.
		Nennius is generally believed to be a credible source, especially for his chronicling of life in his time and of the genealogies of various kings.
		However, he does say that Arthur by himself killed 940 Saxons at the Battle of Badon Hill.
	www.lodgeroomuk.com /artlegend.htm (1169 words)

	Mount Badon: The Importance of the High Ground
		From the top of the hill, you could survey the countryside, see where your enemies were and where your reinforcements were.
		If it was indeed the Britons who had control of the hill and held off wave after wave of Saxon advances, then the achievement is remarkable and illustrative.
		Whatever the case, whoever controlled the hilltop, it was the high ground that was of supreme importance that day, for whoever held it at the end was in control of both armies and the countryside for as far as the eye could see.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/ancient_british_history/53501 (428 words)

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